Goulash
//ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika. countable, uncountable
- 2 a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika wordnet
- 3 Synonym of American chop suey. Midwestern-US, countable, uncountable
- 4 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. countable, uncountable
- 5 A hodgepodge, mishmash countable, uncountable
"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.""
Example
More examples"Have you ever had goulash soup?"
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.
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