Kraut

• kraut

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), alluding to the use of cabbage as ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). From 19th c. but popularized during WWI/II.[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

• krautrock
• Krautwagon

• Kartu, kurta

• IPA^(key): /kʁaʊ̯t/

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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 German, 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.

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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)

1. (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): /kraʊ̯t/

Kraut n (plural Kreiter, diminutive Kreitche)

1. herb

• Krachkraut

Kraut n

1. cabbage

• Krautstock

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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

• IPA^(key): /kræu̯t/, [kʀæˑʊ̯t]

Kraut n (plural Kraider, diminutive Kraidchen)

1. herb, plant