Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- coarse food for livestock, composed of entire plants, including leaves, stalks, and grain, of such forages as corn and sorghum.
- people considered as readily available and of little value: cannon fodder.
- raw material: fodder for a comedian’s routine.
verb (used with object)
- to feed with or as if with fodder.
noun
- bulk feed for livestock, esp hay, straw, etc
- raw experience or materialfodder for the imagination
verb
- (tr) to supply (livestock) with fodder
Old English fodder “food,” especially “food for cattle,” from Proto-Germanic *fodran (cf. Old Norse foðr, Middle Dutch voeder, Old High German fuotar, German Futter), from PIE *patrom, from *pa- “to feed” (see food).