| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To forage.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb fodder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fodder) | 1. Give fodder (to domesticated animals).[Wordnet]. 2. To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.;to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: foddering, foddered, fodders, fodderer, fodderers, fodderingly and fodderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FODDERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FODDERING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Feeding with dry food, &c. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: fodder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cannon fodder | Soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Cannon fodder | Cannon Fodder is an expression used to denote soldiers who are regarded or treated as expendable in the face of artillery fire. Fodder is food for livestock - the livestock in this case being cannons, the food being the soldiers sent against them. It generally refers to situations where soldiers are forced to fight against hopeless odds, as in the trenches of World War I. The term may have been introduced during the U.S. Civil War. (references) | ||
| Cannon Fodder (video game) | Cannon Fodder was a short run of war video games developed by Sensible Software, a mix of both real-time strategy and action games. The first version of the game was made for the Commodore Amiga but it was later converted for many other formats. The gameplay is much better when a player uses mouse instead of gamepad (as with Megadrive conversion). Only two games in the series were released, but spawned through most active systems at the time of the release. The series have a clear humourous line, and soldiers are seen as mere cannon fodder. The pre-mission screen shows a hill with a grave for each dead soldier, with recruits lining up in front of it. On top of the screen, a sports-like score appears. The tag line for the first game was "War has never been so much fun", and for the second (with a more sci-fi background, which included some alien missions) "War has only been this fun once before". The first Cannon Fodder game is widely considered as a video game classic (especially the original Amiga version, which contains a humorous title song with lyrics) while the second game, Cannon Fodder 2, was complained to have a too high difficulty level, hampering its gameplay (though also the first game gave lots of gray hairs to gamers). (references) | ||
| God Fodder | God Fodder is the first full-length album by British rock band Ned's Atomic Dustbin in 1991. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fodder
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bum fodder | Slang in 1811 | BUM FODDER. Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Fodder crop | Food & Agriculture | The edible vegetation for livestock and/or wildlife produced seasonally or annually on a given area. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fodder kale | Statistics | A variety of cabbage used as food for animals. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fodder pulp | Industry | Chemical pulp intended as auxiliary fodder for animals. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fodder tree | Finance | Tree whose leaves are used for fodder. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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