The act of giving fodder or feed to animals, especially livestock.
Present participle of 'fodder' (to feed), from Old English 'fōdor'; the -ing suffix marks continuous or habitual action.
Foddering was such a predictable daily task on farms that it became a metonym for routine, mechanical work—when medieval texts wanted to describe someone doing something mindless, they might compare it to foddering animals.
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