Kraut
68
9.9
- noun
- /kraʊt/
- Slur
:
[insulto despectivo para personas de origen alemán]
- "We're going to the German district to pound on a few Krauts!
- talk to a Kraut
- look like a Kraut
- friends with Krauts
Examples
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For a few days, Jimmy worried that the kraut might contact the police after all.
Fiction book (1993) -
Turned out Rooney was a photographer, and the kraut kid was some kind of assistant.
Fiction book (1993) -
Boy, I hope the kraut who owned the place had insurance!
Fiction book (2001) -
Them Krauts got their machine guns set up at the head of this here draw.
Fiction book (1992) -
The Americans just shot all the Krauts.
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Whatever the explanation, the kraut struck Jimmy as a straight-ahead guy.
Fiction book (1993) -
I ended up protecting a lot of Limeys and Krauts over the years and never hated one of them.
Blog text (23) -
He used the term kraut to insult his German friends during the argument.
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Some people still use kraut as a derogatory name for Germans, which is offensive.
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The movie depicted soldiers using the word kraut to refer to their German enemies.
Compounds
How Offensive
- Slur
68
9.9
- Offensive
3
9.9
- Offensive
313
1.3
- Offensive
261
4.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kraut comes from the German word Kraut, which means 'herb' or 'cabbage' and appears in the English food name sauerkraut. Soldiers in the World Wars used the food name as a nickname for Germans, so Kraut became an insulting word for a person of German descent and is offensive today.