sour crout, sour-crout
Also 7 sower crawt, 8 soure crud (after Du.), 9 sourcrout; 8 sour-krout, 8– sour krout, 9 sour kraut.
[Anglicized form of sauerkraut.]
1. A fermented preparation of cabbage.
| α 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. ii. iii. 83 They vse to serue in sower crawt or cabbage vpon a voide circle of carved Iron. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull ii. iii, Poor Frog [the Dutch]..his children..live upon salt herring, sowre crud, and borecole. 1775 Ann. Reg. i. 190 Cabbages, made into sour-crout, a kind of pickle, but used, in lieu of common food, in some parts of Germany. 1796 T. Twining Trav. India, etc. (1893) 3 The American captains have the reputation of keeping rather an indifferent table—living, it is said, principally on salt beef and sour-crout. 1802 Beddoes Hygëia viii. 19 Particular things as sour crout gave the person..uneasiness. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 286 Either are to me as bad as a double dose of sour crout. 1852 Thackeray Esmond ii. xiii. (1876) 261 Feeding on train-oil and sour⁓crout. 1865 tr. Erckmann-Chatrian's Waterloo (1870) 60 He set a good dish of sour-crout beside the soup-tureen. |
| attrib. 1778 H. More Let. in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) I. 132, I dined yesterday at Garrick's, with the sour crout party. |
| β 1776 Cook in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 403 Sour Krout..is..highly antiscorbutic. 1777 Forster Voy. round World I. 53 The captain had for some weeks past ordered sour-krout (or cabbage sliced and fermented) to be regularly served to the crew. a 1845 Hood Knight & Dragon xiv, Noble Lord of the soil, Of its corn and its oil,..Of our cream and sour-kraut, Of our carp and our trout. 1857 Hughes Tom Brown i. i, You have seen men and cities, no doubt,..and know the taste of sour krout. 1870 Dubois Artistic Cookery 67 Pheasant with Sour-krout. 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 834/1 Sour Kraut Cutter, a machine for cutting cabbage for kraut. |
2. U.S. slang. A German.
Cf. sauerkraut 2 and
kraut 2.
| 1841 H. J. Mercier Life in Man of War 232 Yes, old sour-crout, and you'd be dirty too if you were..in that infernal shot-locker as long as these fellows have been. |
Hence
sour-croutish a.| c 1780 Beckford Italy (1834) I. 62 An execrable sour-croutish supper was served up to my majesty. 1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I xv. (1872) 121 The whole atmosphere is rather beery, sour-krautish, and cigarish. |