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kraut

(krout)

1. Sauerkraut.

2. often Kraut Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of German birth or ancestry.

[German; see sauerkraut.]

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Kraut

(kraʊt)

n, adj

slang a derogatory word for German

[from German (Sauer)kraut, literally: (pickled) cabbage]

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kraut

(kraʊt)

n.

1. Informal. sauerkraut.

2. (sometimes cap.) Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. (a contemptuous term used to refer to a German.)

[1915–20; by shortening]

usage: Definition 2 is a slur and should be avoided. It is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as highly insulting.

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Noun

Kraut - offensive term for a person of German descent

Boche, Jerry, Krauthead, Hun

derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something

jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

German - a person of German nationality

Translations

Kraut Teutone

boche fritzschleu

Kraut

[kraʊt] (offensive)

A. ADJ → alemán

B. N → alemán/ana m/f

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"Vot is com'd to mein kraut?" screamed all the vrows, "It has been done to rags for this hour!"

Affairs being thus miserably situated, I left the place in disgust, and now appeal for aid to all lovers of correct time and fine kraut. Let us proceed in a body to the borough, and restore the ancient order of things in Vondervotteimittiss by ejecting that little fellow from the steeple.

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"Let us hope that he is at home," said the lieutenant, "that we may take him with us when we report to Kraut at Nairobi.

"You are right, my friend," he said, "it will go well with both of us; but I shall have to travel far to catch General Kraut before he reaches Mombasa.

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A very cruel bunch, the Krauts.' Issie looked down at the flecks in the marble floor, her eye registering their random scatter, some white, some khaki, forming arbitrary patterns, flukes plucked out by the invention of the onlooker.

MORNING SERIAL; The Element of Water

Best known for hit singles Destination Zululand, Zulu Beat and Mack the Knife, the band originally went by the name of Kurt and his Sauer Krauts before shortening to King Kurt in 1981.

A right royal show; King Kurt to play the Bungalow

And the horrendous delays will be a price worth paying if we can do so clutching our traditional blue passports, singing as one at the ungrateful Euro customs folk that if it wasn't for the British they'd be Krauts.

EU control is a Brexit strategy

Fermented Vegetables: Creative Recipes for Fermenting 64 Vegetables & Herbs covers not just the usual pickles and krauts, but chutneys, relishes, pastes, kimchis, and more.

Fermented Vegetables

Chutneys, relishes, pickles and krauts can be made in a crock or a pickle jar using a minimum of specialty ingredients.

Fermented Vegetables

If a man refers to an Army buddy as "my Paki friend", it's no worse than the anti- American brigade calling Americans "Yanks" or calling the Irish "Paddies", the Scots "Jocks" and Germans "Krauts".