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Kraut is a very offensive English word for a German person. Do not use it for people. Soldiers and angry crowds used it a lot in the First and Second World Wars, and it still carries that hate. Though actually, the same short word can also mean sauerkraut — sour pickled cabbage — in informal food talk, and music fans say krautrock for a kind of German band from the 1970s. Those food and music uses grew from the same German cabbage word, but they do not make the insult safe. If you mean the cabbage, say sauerkraut. If you mean a person from Germany, say German.
對德國人的蔑稱（極冒犯，勿用）
組成From German Kraut, cabbage, because people linked Germans with cabbage dishes, especially sauerkraut. English also shortened sauerkraut to kraut. The insult appears in the 1830s and became common in the two world wars.
同家族的字
- sauerkrautkraut is a short form of sauerkraut; both go back to German for sour cabbage
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Krautnoun/kɹaʊt/
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offensivederogatoryslurslangA German.
- Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.
krautverb詞源 1
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To make (into) sauerkraut.
- I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]
- The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。