Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, seasoned mainly with paprika.
  • noun A mixture of many different elements; a hodgepodge.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See gulash.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a rich meat stew highly seasoned with paprika

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hungarian gulyás (hús), herdsman's (meat), goulash, from gulya, herdsman.]

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From Hungarian gulyás.

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Examples

  • The races of gubernatorial goulash is gettin 'great attention, these days, and the fights have also been fierce in some states.

    President Obama called Wilder about Virginia governor's race 2009

  • And don't forget some of Mama Joly's fumbles---lemon extract mistaken for vanilla in chocolate chip cookies (surprisingly not-bad); cayenne pepper for paprika in Hungarian goulash (a little might have been nice) . . .

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  • "My mom made a casserole she called goulash," a friend told me.

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  • Wallace intended it as sort of the beginning of a series of "quick questions," but Beck goes into some long, incomprehensible word goulash recitation where he says, he realized "I'm not seeing something because I have eyes."

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  • Wallace intended it as sort of the beginning of a series of "quick questions," but Beck goes into some long, incomprehensible word goulash recitation where he says, he realized "I'm not seeing something because I have eyes."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

  • Wallace intended it as sort of the beginning of a series of "quick questions," but Beck goes into some long, incomprehensible word goulash recitation where he says, he realized "I'm not seeing something because I have eyes."

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  • We tried the stag goulash, a hearty venison stew with fluffy bread dumplings.

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  • Last night I made a big pot of what our family calls goulash ground beef, onions, garlic, stewed tomatoes, some italian seasoning, pasta and corn.

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  • Hungary provide more and more material incentives, called goulash communism, pardon the expression, that increasingly the socialist world will have to give more and more material incentives to overcome the contradictions and the problems of central planning.

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  • A great deal of this food supply was sent in the form of canned meat, popularly known as goulash, and so to-day whenever an automobile passes on a Danish road, the small boys call out "goulash Baron," in the belief that the occupant is a new-made millionaire, enriched by trade with

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