food for horses and farm animals （马等家畜的）饲料，秣 - (disapproving)
(often after a noun 常置于名词后 people or things that are considered to have only one use （人或东西）只能是…的料 Without education, these children will end up as factory fodder (= only able to work in a factory). 不受教育，这些孩子将来只能到工厂干活。 This story will be more fodder for the gossip columnists. 这个传闻会是闲谈专栏作家的又一素材。 He regarded lists of rules, regulations and procedures as dustbin fodder (= only fit to be thrown away). 他把一系列规则、条例和程序视为垃圾。
see also cannon fodder
Word OriginOld English fōdor, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voeder and German Futter, also to food.