kraut

plural krauts

1. abbreviationclippingcountableuncountableClipping of sauerkraut.

   The bacon fat and the browned ribs and the boiling kraut smelled good.

   2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

present singular third person krauts · participle present krauting · participle past krauted · past krauted

1. To make (into) sauerkraut.

   The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.

   1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Perishable Agricultural Commodities: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 5023, Aug. 9 and 10, 1961, page 119

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   I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]

   1919, J. M. Smith, Muskogee Co., Okla., letter in Market Growers Journal, page 337

   They krauted cabbage, picked saskatoons and dried them for the winter. The whole family contributed to the welfare of the home for there was no room for a drone in their midst.

   2017 June 22, Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, Robert Ventresca, A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN

plural krauts

1. Alternative letter-case form of Kraut (“German person”).

plural Krauts · alternative kraut

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA German.First known use 1841

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

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

   Synonyms: Boche, Fritz, jerry, Hun, sauerkraut