Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chopped or shredded cabbage salted and fermented in its own juice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A favorite German dish, consisting of cabbage cut fine, pressed into a cask, with alternate layers of salt, and suffered to ferment till it becomes sour.
Wiktionary
- n. A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage.
- n. obsolete, ethnic slur, offensive, slang A German person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. shredded cabbage fermented in brine
Etymologies
- Borrowed into English around 1600 from German Sauerkraut, from sauer ("sour, acidic, spoiled") + Kraut ("herb”, specifically “cabbage"). (Wiktionary)
- German : sauer, sour; see sauerbraten + Kraut, cabbage (from Middle High German krūt, from Old High German). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Along with lemon-ginger tea, sauerkraut is one of the all-purpose home remedies I offer quite often to the walking wounded.”
“And we called sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" and we called liberty cabbage "super slaw.”
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“The sauerkraut is not overwhelmingly difficult, but for those of us in Michoacán, the rye flour to make sour rye bread is very hard to find.”
“Having lived in England, I can tell he's trying to be funny because he used the word sauerkraut while talking about Germans.”
“Edit when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’”
“Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut ‘Liberty cabbage’ and somebody actually proposed calling German measles ‘Liberty measles’?”
“The trick to sauerkraut is to drain but do not discard the packing liquid, and then rinse the sauerkraut VERY BRIEFLY in cold water, and then drain it again, discarding the second run-off.”
“Recently, I started making my own sauerkraut, which is much better tasting than store bought.”
“I still can remember my first taste of this made up as choucroute, the French word for the German dish of sauerkraut, which is the the German word for both the fermented cabbage and the dish made from it containing a variety of smoked meats and sausages.”
“Don't they have high schools for pregnant students in Alaska? sauerkraut aka Palin Pity Party (09: 04: 02):”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sauerkraut’.
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
kyoodle, heimin, feis, menarche, cordwainer, gherao, zythum, accidie, anastomosis, boustrophedon, oleum, penicillin and 238 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Condiments
ketchup, catsup, mustard, relish, mayo, mayonnaise, condiment, horseradish, wasabi, mango pickle, mint chutney, Sabrett's Prepare... and 38 more...
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Nummulated foodstuffs (Open list!)
Report on the things you have recently eaten and found to be tasty—and perhaps any nonstandard words inspired by said yumcomestibles!
See: nummulated; skipvia (who is entirely re...nummulated, papadum, tzatziki, emping melinjo, grilled bananas, grilled lettuce, watermelon gelato, toast under banana, samosa, indian chicken pa..., pasteles, roasted macadamias and 4 more...
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Tricky Words from German
Loanwords from German -- some established, some wet behind the ears -- that are difficult to spell, pronounce, or remember.
Torschlusspanik, Fräulein, weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, sprachgefühl, schadenfreude, katzenjammer, Radfahrer, gemütlich, zeitgeist, gesellschaft, gemeinschaft and 48 more...
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Sour List
sourpuss, sour grapes, soursop, sourdough, sourwood, sourball, sourkrout, sourcrout, sauerkraut, sauerbraten, sour cream, amaretto sour and 24 more...
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Things that taste better than they smell
See also Things that smell better than they taste.
durian, garlic, espresso, grapes, beer, hard boiled eggs, really runny cheeses, cumin, onions, vinegar, tuna, steamed cauliflower and 7 more...
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A great ferment
sauerkraut, kvass, kumis, yogurt, pulque, sourdough, kimchi, skyr, lassi, vinegar, miso, surströmming and 12 more...
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Gas-Inducing Foodstuffs
Foods that produce flatulence. List title a shameless filching of a fortuitous phrase yarb introduced in his definition of scotch egg. I know everyone has a few foods they avoid at certain times ...
scotch egg, cabbage, chili beans, garbanzo beans, chickpeas, hummus, pickled eggs, rutabaga, radish, jerusalem artichoke, brussels sprouts, cauliflower and 42 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
Tweets
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On your feets uneven,
While the snoo lay round about...
--Walt Kelly May 3, 2007