Fodder Definition
fŏdər
fodders
noun
fodders
Coarse food for cattle, horses, sheep, etc., as cornstalks, hay, and straw.
Webster's New World
The basis or basic material for something.
Fodder for celebrity gossip.
Webster's New World
Something, esp. information, that is thought of as being in large supply and, often, inferior, raw or coarse, etc.
Promotional fodder in mass media.
Webster's New World
(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
Wiktionary
verb
To feed with fodder.
Webster's New World
Origin of Fodder
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From Middle English, from Old English fōdor, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare West Frisian foer, Dutch voer 'pasture, fodder', German Futter 'feed', Danish and Swedish foder), from *fōdô 'food', from Proto-Indo-European *pat- 'to feed', *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). More at food.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English fōdor pā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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