Meaning

noun soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire

noun coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop

verb give fodder (to domesticated animals)

originFrom Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food.

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