goulash
/ˈɡuː.læʃ/US/ˈɡuː.lɑːʃ/
goulash noun: a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
Noun
goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)
- A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
- Synonym of American chop suey.
- Synonyms:
- American chop suey
- 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.
- A hodgepodge, mishmash
- 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."1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9
goulash meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Thai
goulash in Hindi
- a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
- गुलाश gulāś
goulash in Tamil
- மறுவகை பிரிப்பு
goulash in Arabic
- a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
- غُولَاش ḡūlāš
goulash in Thai
- a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika and sour cream
- กูยาช
Synonyms of goulash
Forms of goulash
| plural | goulashes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gulyas |
| alternative form | gulasch |
| alternative form | goulasch |
| alternative form | gulash |
Origin of goulash
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.
Words formed from goulash
Words that rhyme with goulash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about goulash
- What does goulash mean?
- Goulash means a stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
- What is goulash in Hindi?
- Goulash in Hindi is गुलाश (gulāś). See Goulash meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is goulash?
- Goulash is a noun.
- How do you pronounce goulash?
- Goulash is pronounced /ˈɡuː.læʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of goulash?
- The plural of goulash is goulashes.
Words near goulash in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: goulash (page history and authors); goulash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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