kraut meaning (derogatory): definition, etymology and quotations

Kraut

nounalso spelled Kraut

/kɹaʊt/ · CA /kɹʌʊt/

Etymology 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.

Derogatory, Ethnic, Offensive, Slang, Slur A German.

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:

Derived terms: krautish, krautland, kraut land, Krautland, krautrock, Krautspeak, Krautwagon

kraut

verb

Etymology Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”).

To make (into) sauerkraut.

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
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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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: