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Hey vs Fodder - What's the difference?

hey | fodder |

As nouns the difference between hey and fodder

is that hey is a choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another while fodder is food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

As an interjection hey

is an exclamation to get attention.

As a verb fodder is

to feed animals (with fodder).

hey

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • An exclamation to get attention.
  • Hey , look at this!
  • A protest or reprimand.
  • Hey ! Stop that!
  • An expression of surprise.
  • Hey ! This is new!
  • (US, Australia, UK, Canada) An informal greeting, similar to hi.
  • Hey ! How's it going?
  • A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion (see also eh, huh).
  • Hey ? How's that?
  • A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
  • The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".

    See also

    * huh * hay is for horses * (wikipedia "hey")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (country dancing) A choreographic figure in which the dancers weave between one another.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    fodder

    English

    Noun

  • Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.
  • * 1598? , William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona ,Act I, scene I:
  • The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
  • A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19 1/2 to 24 cwt (993 to 1222 kg).; a fother.
  • * 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168:
  • Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19 1/2 hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times.
  • (slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
  • (figurative) Something which serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
  • * '>citation
  • According to the audio commentary on “Treehouse Of Horror III,” some of the creative folks at The Simpsons were concerned that the “Treehouse Of Horror” franchise had outworn its welcome and was rapidly running out of classic horror or science-fiction fodder to spoof.
  • (cryptic crosswords) The text to be operated on (anagrammed, etc.) within a clue.
  • * 2009 , "Colin Blackburn", another 1-off cryptic clue.'' (on newsgroup ''rec.puzzles.crosswords )
  • In (part of) Shelley's poem Ozymandias is a "crumbling statue". If this is the explanation then the clue is not a reverse cryptic in the same was(SIC) as GEGS -> SCRAMBLED EGGS but a normal clue where where the fodder and anagrind are *both* indirect.
  • * 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
  • Insane Roman! (4)'' Look in ''-sane Roman'' and you'll uncover NERO, the ''insane Roman''. Dovetailing the signpost — ''in'' — with the hidden fodder — ''sane Roman — is inspired, an embedded style of signposting.

    Synonyms

    * (animal food) provender

    Derived terms

    * cannon fodder * fodder radish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) To feed animals (with fodder).
  • Anagrams

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