fodder
Hay for horses
Fodder is food for livestock, especially dried hay or straw fed to cattle and horses.
The word extends to anything consumed in bulk or used as raw material: cannon fodder (soldiers treated as expendable), fodder for gossip, fodder for late-night comedians.
The implication is abundance without much value—plentiful stuff to be processed or used up.
Dried feed crop
- silageFermented crop fodder
- alfalfaForage crop legume
- barleyGrain for malt
- oatsCereal grain for porridge
corn · sorghum · crop · harvest · pasture · clover · timothy · turnips
Able to be sacrificed
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
infantry · conscripts · recruits · frontline · warfare · battle · slaughter · attrition
Physical matter; pertinent
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- sourcePoint of origin
- gristGrain to be milled
- inputData received for processing
raw material · ideas · content · subject matter · themes · storylines · plots · characters
Sensational gossip newspapers
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- headlinesArticle titles in newspapers
- clickbaitSensationalized content for traffic
- rumorsUnconfirmed circulating stories
scandals · speculation · pundits · media · sensationalism · blogs · commentary · soundbites
hay
Dried feed crop
oats · corn · sorghum · crop · harvest · pasture · clover · timothy · turnips · legumes
expendable
Able to be sacrificed
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- troopsMilitary personnel collectively
soldiers · infantry · conscripts · recruits · frontline · warfare · battle · slaughter · attrition · disposable
material
Physical matter; pertinent
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- sourcePoint of origin
- gristGrain to be milled
input · raw material · ideas · content · subject matter · themes · storylines · plots · characters · scenarios
tabloids
Sensational gossip newspapers
- gossipInformal talk spreading rumors
- headlinesArticle titles in newspapers
- clickbaitSensationalized content for traffic
rumors · scandals · speculation · pundits · media · sensationalism · blogs · commentary · soundbites · memes
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, farming
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- ranchingcattle, ranch, rancher, ranchers, ranching
- animal feedingfeeder, feeding time, hand feeding, feeding schedule, scheduled feeding
- foragehay, silage, pasture grass, browse, grasses
- herbivore foodgrass, hay, leaves, grasses, foliage
foddergrain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
pasture · concentrate · protein concentrate · grazing · supplement
- cannon fodderTroops treated as disposable
- tabloid fodderSensationalized celebrity news