| 释义 |
fod·der
I. \ˈfädə(r)\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fōdor, foddor — more at food
1. : food, provision — not now in formal use
2. : something fed to domestic animals; especially : coarse food (as hay, vegetables, corn fodder) for cattle, horses, and sheep
< fodder plants >
< fodder trees >
— compare concentrate, roughage
3. : something that is used to supply a constant demand : something to be consumed: as
a. slang : ammunition
b. : raw material for artistic creation
< burlesques of animals, babies, and females are perennial clown fodder — Bill Ballantine >
< the fodder of the middlebrow novelist — V.S.Pritchett >
c. : human beings regarded for a certain purpose as an undifferentiated mass
< labor fodder >
< cannon fodder >
< factory fodder >
II. transitive verb
(foddered ; foddered ; foddering \-d(ə)riŋ\ ; fodders)
Etymology: Middle English fodderen, from fodder (I), n.
1. : to feed with or as if with fodder
2. obsolete : graze
III.
variant of fother |