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goulash - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

  • A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
  • (Midwestern US) Synonym of American chop suey.
  • (bridge) 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
    • ✤ While people do not flaunt their preferences, there is also no attempt to hide the facts. One man, who had worked with the collective for three months, could not divide the group by sexuality. “It seems like a goulash of gays, straights, bi’s but you can’t tell who’s who, or what’s what.”1

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈɡuː.læʃ/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • (US) IPA: /ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ

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Footnotes

  1. 1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9: ↩

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