Middle English Dictionary Entry
fodder n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fodder n. Also foder, foddre, vodder. |
| Etymology | OE fōdor, foddor. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Food for live stock, feed; esp., hay and straw, dry winter feed; (b) ~ bin.
Associated quotations
a
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)27031 : Heo weoren ifaren into þan londe fodder to biwinnen, æiþer uodder and mete to læden to heore ferde.
- c1230(?a1200) *Ancr.(Corp-C 402)113a : Þenne mot ha þenchen of þe kues foddre.
- c1390 Disp.Virg.& Cross (Vrn)69 : Mi fruit was born wiþ beestes on bed..fostred was in a fodderes stalle.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3868 : Gras tyme is doon, my fodder is now forage.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)249b/a : Some feedeþ bestes þerwith in stede of straw and fodder.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)225b/b : Som is ykepte to fodyr of bestis.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3317 : Fodder [Frf: prouande] and hai þou sal find bun.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)3600 : Hay and Otys, fodder and forage.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Judg.19.19 : Hauynge chaf and hay into the fodre [WB(2): mete] of assis.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)46b : Pabulum: fodder.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.7.43 : He..hath put an unmeke lord foddre to his crwel hors (this to seyn, that Hercules slowh Diomedes and made his hors to freten hym).
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)168 : Foddur, bestys mete, or forage: Farrago, in frugo, pabulum.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.718 : The fodder grene is best as for their foode.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)599/34 : Pabulum: voddur.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)49b : Fodyr: farrago, pabulum, pastus.
b
- (1355-7) Doc.Manor in MP 3451 : Foddirbynne.