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Kraut.

herb; useful plant (plant used to flavour food, or for medicinal effect)

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Meaning & usage

noun/kʁaʊ̯t/
  1. herb; useful plant (plant used to flavour food, or for medicinal effect)

    countable · neuter · strong
  2. herbaceous plant

    countable · neuter · strong
  3. cabbage (vegetable)

    Austria · Southern-Germany · neuter · regional · strong · uncountable
  4. a thick syrup made from sugar beets or, less often, fruit

    Germany · Western · neuter · regional · strong · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle High German krūt, from Old High German krūt, chrūt, from Proto-West Germanic *krūd (“plant, vegetable, herb”).

noun/kʁaʊ̯t/
  1. a German (from an Anglo-Saxon perspective)

    derogatory · masculine · offensive · slang · strong
Where this word comes from

From English Kraut (“German”), mostly via American films and books about World Wars I and II. The English term is from German Sauerkraut, due to the British and American perception of sauerkraut as a stereotypically German dish.

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