Victuals vs Fodder - What's the difference?
victuals | fodder | Related terms |
(archaic, plurale tantum) Food]] [[supply, supplies; provisions.
* 1598? , Two Gentlemen of Verona ,Act II, scene I line 181:
English plurals
(victual)
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:
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:
(slang, drafting, design) Tracing paper.
(figurative) Something which serves as inspiration or encouragement, especially for satire or humour.
* '>citation
(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 )
* 2012 , David Astle, Puzzled: Secrets and clues from a life in words
Victuals is a related term of fodder.
As nouns the difference between victuals and fodder
is that victuals is (archaic|plurale tantum) food]] [[supply|supplies; provisions while fodder is food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.As verbs the difference between victuals and fodder
is that victuals is (victual) while fodder is (dialect) to feed animals (with fodder).victuals
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Noun
(head)- though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals and would fain have meat.
Verb
(head)fodder
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Noun
- The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
