to fodder

Examples

• All

• During the winter, farmers fodder their cattle with hay to keep them healthy.

• In history, the Canadians are seen as "partners in battle," his biographers have written, "not as colonial cannon fodder."

  Academic text (2005)

• Capitalism separates us, forces us into alienation and de-solidarity, and many nerds are just willing cannon fodder for its next upgrade.

  Traceroute (2016)

• She, the strong, blunt wife, will keep things the same: cows milked, dogs fed, hay bales brought in from the fields, cattle foddered, bread in the oven, and dinners boiling on the range.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Every evening, she goes to fodder the chickens in the barn.

• He has to fodder the horses before going to work each day.

Synonyms

S

to slop

vsto fodder

2 7.9

To feed pigs with leftover kitchen food

gives stored plant food such as hay or straw instead of scraps

G

to grass

vsto fodder

• UK

6.4

To allow animals to eat short green plants on a field

gives stored dry plant material like hay or straw

Antonyms

S

to starve

134 3.0

To stop someone from eating so they become very hungry

Compounds

C

cannon fodder

• Offensive

7 8.5

Soldiers in war who are expected to die and treated with little care

L

lobby fodder

8.7

Information presented as facts to influence lawmakers or public opinion

M

mere fodder

• Offensive

8.4

People or ideas others use as unimportant material

Surface Forms

Etymology