# goulash

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɡuː.læʃ/ · frequency rank #75,921

## Definitions
1. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
2. Synonym of American chop suey.
3. 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.
4. A hodgepodge, mishmash

## 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.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/goulash