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kraut en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable) Clipping of sauerkraut.
   alt of sauerkraut
   • The bacon fat and the browned ribs and the boiling kraut smelled good. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

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Deriveds

krautfurter · kraut juice

kraut en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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:
   • 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:

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kraut en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

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

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