Fodder vs. Fudder — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fodder and Fudder
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Fodder
Fodder (), also called provender (), is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs. "Fodder" refers particularly to food given to the animals (including plants cut and carried to them), rather than that which they forage for themselves (called forage).
Fudder
Alternative form of fodder
Fodder
Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
Fudder
See Fodder, a weight.
Fodder
Raw material, as for artistic creation.
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Fodder
A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply
Romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.
Fodder
To feed with fodder.
Fodder
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Fodder
(historical) A load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities, generally around 1000 kg.
Fodder
Tracing paper.
Fodder
(figurative) Stuff; material; something that serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
Fodder
(cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
Fodder
People considered to have negligible value and easily available or expendable.
Innocent people who are arrested become fodder for the justice system.
Cannon fodder
Fodder
(dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
Fodder
A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19½ to 24 cwt.; a fother.
Fodder
That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
Fodder
To feed, as cattle, with dry food or cut grass, etc.; to furnish with hay, straw, oats, etc.
Fodder
Coarse food (especially for cattle and horses) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
Fodder
Give fodder (to domesticated animals)
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