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fodder

[ US /ˈfɑdɝ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɒdɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
  2. coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
VERB
  1. give fodder (to domesticated animals)

How To Use fodder In A Sentence

  • Several representatives sought assistance from the government for procuring fodder and setting up additional cattle pounds for animals that are either ill or found to be unremunerative for farmers.
  • The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
  • Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
  • It is carefully calibrated to maximize milk production while minimizing cost and might consist of haylage or silage—chopped, preserved fodder—ground with protein boosters like soy or the malted grain left over from brewing. The Dirty Life
  • We know of young people who have been uprooted from their homes and placed in provincial centres where they are used as fodder in the great experiment. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you want good rental fodder, you have to imagine people wanting to live there. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cow's stomach was bloated from eating the wet fodder.
  • He said the worries of the farmers facing the shortage of green fodder for their cattle may soon be over.
  • So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It is the perfect fodder for talk show host fulmination. Guess who isn't getting laid off (Jack Bog's Blog)
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