Sauerkraut Definition

sourkrout
noun
Chopped cabbage fermented in a brine of its own juice with salt.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sauerkraut

Noun

Singular:
sauerkraut
Plural:
sauerkrauts

Origin of Sauerkraut

  • Borrowed into English around 1600 from German Sauerkraut, from sauer (“sour, acidic, spoiled") + Kraut (“herb", specifically “cabbage").

    From Wiktionary

  • German sauer sour sauerbraten Kraut cabbage (from Middle High German krūt) (from Old High German)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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