Fodder is food for animals, often dry plants like hay. Farmers feed fodder to cows, horses, and sheep. It helps animals grow strong.
The cows eat good fodder every day.
Farmers store fodder for winter months.
Fodder can mean things that give ideas or fuel thinking. For example, a story can be fodder for conversation. We use it in a non-literal way.
This report is fodder for new ideas.
That movie gave fodder for our talk.
Fodder can mean people or things used by others, often unfairly. For example, a group may be called fodder when companies try to sell them products.
Teenagers are fodder for advertising firms.
Scandals are fodder for gossip magazines.
Fodder also refers to green plants cut and stored for animals, called silage. It is fresh and different from dry hay. Farmers use it for feeding cows and other animals.
The farmer stored fresh fodder in the barn.
Fodder made from corn is very nutritious.
Fodder as a verb means to give food to animals. It is used mostly in farming. People feed animals with hay or grass called fodder.
Farmers fodder the sheep in winter.
We fodder animals every morning on farms.
