English words from Hungarian
- agrarian scissorsThe disparity between the prices of agricultural and industrial products.
- chimney cakeA kind of long, cylindrical Hungarian pastry made from sweet yeast dough and roasted over charcoal, originating from the Székely people (kürtőskalács).
- goulash communismThe form of communism in Hungary following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, involving economic reforms and reduced repression.
- magic cubeBy analogy with magic square, an n-by-n-by-n arrangement of n³ numbers such that the numbers in each row, in all columns (horizontal and vertical) and in all main diagonals (of which there are 6*n+4) each have the same sum.
- Rubik's cubeA mechanical puzzle in the shape of a cube, all sides able to be rotated, each side divided into 9 squares, the moving pieces allowing the cube to be rearranged. The goal is to get the colored squares aligned so that each side of the cube is the same color.
- ruin pubA bar, selling alcoholic beverages, inhabiting an old building left in a ramshackle condition; a popular style of pub in Budapest.
- salami tacticsThe piecemeal removal or scaling back of something (especially political opposition); a gradual attack on an opposing position, group, etc.
- secret chancellorIn the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, originally the chief priest of the royal chapel, who bore the title of count (ispán); later the head of a separate chancellery concerned with foreign diplomacy.
- Székely LandA historic and ethnographic region in Romania, inhabited mainly by Székelys, a subgroup of Hungarians.
- winter salamiA traditional Hungarian salami made from Mangalica pork and spices.