barbecue
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
- (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
- (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
- (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)
Etymology edit
From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue
Noun edit
barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)
- A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- 2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227:
- Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
- (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,[1]
- We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.
- 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,[1]
Synonyms edit
- (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
- (event): braai (South African English), cookout
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Verb edit
barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- To grill.
Synonyms edit
- (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)
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Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from English barbecue.
Noun edit
barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)
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Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
barbecue
- inflection of barbecueën:
- inflection of barbecuen:
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English barbecue.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barbecue m (plural barbecues)
- barbecue
- 2015 July 17, Monde[2]:
- Repéré par tous les réseaux de foodistas depuis son lancement, en 2011, le Braisenville a imposé son décor, censé évoquer la palette chromatique du barbecue (lustres orange braise, briques noir charbon, sol ciment gris cendre), et un vrai concept culinaire.
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Further reading edit
- “barbecue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).
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barbecue n (indeclinable)
Further reading edit
- barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish edit
Noun edit
barbecue c
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Nominative | barbecue | barbecuen | barbecues | - |
Genitive | barbecues | barbecuens | barbecues | - |