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How to pronounce fodder in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cannon fodder, fresh fish
Type of soldier
Type Words
Type of provender, feed
Has types eatage, forage, grass, hay, horse bean, pasturage, pasture, alfalfa, broad bean, stover
Type Words
Type of give, feed

Examples of fodder

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Sardines are incredibly cheap, very high in omega-3 and perfect barbecue fodder.
From the him.uk.msn.com
That's sure to be the next drama, and perhaps more great fodder for his TV show.
From the washingtontimes.com
Improbable-sounding societies have long offered fodder to television dramatists.
From the independent.co.uk
Their mutual antagonism has long been fodder for the South Korean tabloid press.
From the economist.com
It will not be achieved by becoming cannon fodder for the neocons in Washington.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
O'Connell also crowdsources the photographs he uses as fodder for his paintings.
From the npr.org
Gao's historic nomad market had virtually no food stuffs or animal fodder in it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It's bound to provide a lot of fodder and inspiration for book-club discussions.
From the boston.com
Broken down into dozens of themes, today they're popular fodder for video iPods.
From the cnn.com
More examples
  • Cannon fodder: soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
  • Give fodder (to domesticated animals)
  • Coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
  • In agriculture, fodder or animal feed is any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed domesticated livestock such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. Most animal feed is from plants but some is of animal origin. ...
  • Food for animals; A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother; Tracing paper
  • Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
  • May be effectively grown in a hydroponic environment.
  • Pienso; forraje; dar pienso a; cannon fodder
  • Heb. belil , (Job 6:5), meaning properly a mixture or medley (Lat. farrago ), "made up of various kinds of grain, as wheat, barley, vetches, and the like, all mixed together, and then sown or given to cattle" (Job 24:6, A.V. "corn," R.V. "provender;" Isa 30:24, provender").