Kraut

• kraut

From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as ingredient in German cuisine. From 19th c. but popularized during WWI/II.[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /kɹaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /kɹʌʊt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊt

Kraut (plural Krauts)

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

   Synonyms: Boche, Fritz, jerry, Hun, sauerkraut

   Coordinate terms: frog, rosbif

• krautrock

• Kartu, kurta

• IPA^(key): /kʁaʊ̯t/

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From Middle High German krūt, from Old High German krūt, chrūt, from Proto-Germanic *krūdą (“plant, vegetable, herb”). Cognate with Old Saxon krūd (whence Low German Kruut), Old Frisian krūd (whence Saterland Frisian Kruud), Old Dutch krūt (whence Dutch kruid), Yiddish קרויט‎ (kroyt).

Kraut n (genitive Krauts or Krautes, 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) plant whose above-ground portions are not woody
3. (uncountable, regional, southern Germany, Austria) cabbage (vegetable)
4. (uncountable, regional, western Germany) a thick syrup made from sugar beets or, less often, fruit

• (cabbage): This sense has become common in northern and central Germany in the words Krautsalat and Sauerkraut, but not otherwise.

• (cabbage): Kohl

• ins Kraut schießen
• Beikraut
• Heilkraut
• Krautsalat
• Rübenkraut
• Sauerkraut
• Unkraut
• Wildkraut

• Kraut und Rüben

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

Kraut m (genitive Krauts, plural Krauts)

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

• (a German, from an Anglo-Saxon perspective): Fritz

From Old High German krūt, from Proto-Germanic *krūdą. Cognate with German Kraut, Dutch kruid, kruit, Icelandic krydd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʀæːʊ̯t/

Kraut n (plural Kraider)

1. herb, plant