fodder
fodder Lexical Profile
fodder Game Scores & Validity
• noun
People or things considered primarily as raw material, inferior resources, or steady supply to satisfy a particular demand or activity.
"The celebrity's eccentric behavior provided endless fodder for the late-night comedy writers."
Coarse food, especially dried hay, straw, or feed, given to cattle and other domesticated livestock.
"The farmers stored extra bales of hay in the barn to serve as winter fodder for the dairy cows."
• verb
To give hay, straw, or other coarse feed to (cattle or other livestock).
"The ranch hands woke before dawn to fodder the horses before the long journey."
• Rhymes for fodder
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English fōdor, meaning 'food' or 'food for cattle,' from the Proto-Germanic root *fodram, which is also the ultimate source of the modern English word 'food.'