goulash

Meanings

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.