Kraut

• kraut

From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833-1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /kɹaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɹʌʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

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Kraut (plural Krauts)

1. (ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A German. [from 1841]

   Synonyms: Boche, Fritz, jerry, Hun, sauerkraut

   Coordinate terms: frog, rosbif

   • 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, New York: Pantheon Books, page 112:

     Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.

• Kartu, kurta

• IPA^(key): /kʁaʊ̯t/

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Inherited from Middle High German krūt, from Old High German krūt, chrūt, from Proto-West Germanic *krūd (“plant, vegetable, herb”).

Kraut n (strong, genitive Krautes or Krauts, plural Kräuter, diminutive Kräutchen n or Kräutlein n)

1. (countable) herb; useful plant (plant used to flavour food, or for medicinal effect)
2. (countable, botany) herbaceous plant
3. (uncountable, regional, Southern Germany, Austria) cabbage (vegetable)

   Synonym: Kohl

4. (uncountable, regional, western Germany) a thick syrup made from sugar beets or, less often, fruit

• The sense “cabbage” is found in northern and central Germany only in the words Krautsalat and Sauerkraut, but not otherwise.

From English Kraut (“German”), mostly via American films and books about World Wars I and II. The English term is from German Sauerkraut, due to the British and American perception of sauerkraut as a stereotypically German dish.

Kraut m (strong, genitive Krauts, plural Krauts)

2. (slang, derogatory, offensive) a German (from an Anglo-Saxon perspective)

   Synonym: Fritz

• “Kraut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Kraut” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Kraut (Deutscher)” in Duden online
• “Kraut (Meeresfrucht)” in Duden online
• “Kraut (Pflanze, Kohl)” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ˈkraʊ̯t/
• Rhymes: -aʊ̯t
• Syllabification: Kraut

Kraut n (plural Kreiter, diminutive Kreitche)

1. herb

• Krachkraut

Kraut n

1. cabbage

• Krautstock

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Kraut”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 97

Inherited from Old High German krūt, from Proto-West Germanic *krūd.

• IPA^(key): /kræu̯t/, [kʀæˑʊ̯t]

Kraut n (plural Kraider, diminutive Kraidchen)

1. herb, plant

• Kraut in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire