goulash.
A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
Meaning & usage
A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
Synonym of American chop suey.
A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
A hodgepodge, mishmash
Where this word comes from
From French goulasch, itself from Hungarian gulyás (“herdsman”), an ellipsis of gulyáshús (“herdsman meat”), gulyásétel (“herdsman food”), and/or gulyástokány (“herdsman stew”). First attested in English 1866.
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