Noun: Kraut
| Singular | Kraut |
| Plural | Krauts |
Sample Sentences
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Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying. [1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, New York: Pantheon Books, page 112:]
Nouns inflected like Kraut
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833–1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars. See: German Nouns '
Kraut'.