goulash

• gulyas, gulasch, goulasch, gulash

Borrowed from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) +‎ hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.læʃ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

2. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
3. (Midwestern US) Synonym of American chop suey.
4. (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.
5. A hodgepodge, mishmash
   • 1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9:

     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."

• American goulash
• goulash communism

• goelasj

From German Gulasch,^[1] from Hungarian gulyás.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡulɑʃ/, /ˈɣulɑʃ/

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• Hyphenation: gou‧lash

goulash m (plural goulashes, diminutive goulashje n)

1. goulash

• goulashcommunisme

• gulache, gulyás

goulash m (uncountable)

1. goulash (a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream)