Meanings
plural paprikahühner
- datedThe chicken paprikash, a popular Hungarian dish.
The April 29th dinner will be an Austrian Maifest, with a special menu including Gefullter Pragerschenken and Paprikahuhner and a choice selection of Austrian wines. Suitable music will be piped in for the occasion.
1971, Foreign Service Journal, page 331 more example
“Of course the Herr will desire to choose from the bill of fare something national, a gulyás, for instance, or a páprikahuhn.” But páprika, or Hungarian pepper, whether applied to a meat stew or to a fowl, is not altogether to the stranger's taste.
1905, The Outlook, volume 81, page 519
Origin
- GermanPaprikahuhn“chicken paprikash”
- Englishpaprikahuhn
From German Paprikahuhn (“chicken paprikash”), from Paprika (“paprika”) + Huhn (“chicken”).
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