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hungarian goulash

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gou⋅lash

[goo-lahsh, -lash]
–noun
1. Also called Hungarian goulash. a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, with paprika and other seasoning.
2. a heterogeneous mixture; hodgepodge; jumble.
3. a deal in bridge for producing hands of unusual distribution, in which the players arrange their cards of the previous deal by suit and the dealer, after cutting the cards, distributes them without shuffling in three rounds of five, five, and three cards each.

Origin:
1865–70; < Hungarian gulyás, short for gulyáshús herdsman's meat
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goulash 
1866, from Hungarian gulyashus, from gulyas "herdsman" + hus "meat." In Hung., "beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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