barbecue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: barbecues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barbeque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bar-be-que
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bar-b-que
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bar-B-Q
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bar-b-q
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: barbie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: BBQ
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'cue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'que
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: que
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: barbecues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barbecuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barbecueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barbecued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barbecued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: barbeque
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bar-be-que
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bar-b-que
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bar-B-Q
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bar-b-q
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: barbie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: BBQ
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 'cue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 'que
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: que
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We cooked our food on the barbecue.
gloss: A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
gloss: A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A framework of sticks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,
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.
gloss: To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To grill.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
slang
transitive
examples: Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen
And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"
Related words: balbacua
barbacoa
Derived words: banana cue
barbecue pork
barbecuer
barbecue sauce
barbecue slaw
barbecue stopper
barbecuey
barbie
BBQ
camote cue
ham barbecue
Korean barbecue
Lexington-style barbecue
Mongolian barbecue
nonbarbecue
barbecue up
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: braai
lang: Amharic
word: ጥብስ
roman: ṭəbs
lang: Arabic
word: شِوَاء
roman: šiwāʔ
lang: Arabic
word: بَارْبِيكْيُو
roman: barbikyū
lang: Armenian
word: խորոված
roman: xorovac
lang: Azerbaijani
word: barbekü
lang: Belarusian
word: барбекю́
roman: barbjekjú
lang: Belarusian
word: грыль
roman: hrylʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: барбекю́
roman: barbekjú
lang: Bulgarian
word: скара
roman: skara
lang: Chamicuro
word: tsepe'ta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 燒烤 /烧烤
roman: shāokǎo
lang: Cornish
word: barbakoa
lang: Czech
word: gril
lang: Danish
word: barbecue
lang: Dutch
word: barbecue
lang: Dutch
word: grill
lang: Finnish
word: grilli
lang: French
word: barbecue
lang: Galician
word: asadeiro
lang: Georgian
word: მწვადი
roman: mc̣vadi
lang: German
word: Grill
lang: German
word: Barbecue
lang: German
word: Grillen
lang: German
word: Grillplatte
lang: German
word: Grillteller
lang: Greek
word: ψησταριά
roman: psistariá
lang: Greek
word: σχάρα
roman: schára
lang: Haitian Creole
word: griyad
lang: Hebrew
word: מנגל
lang: Hungarian
word: grillsütő
lang: Ido
word: grililo
lang: Italian
word: fornacella
lang: Japanese
word: バーベキュー
roman: bābekyū
lang: Japanese
word: グリル
roman: guriru
lang: Kazakh
word: кәуап
roman: käuap
lang: Korean
word: 바비큐
roman: babikyu
lang: Korean
word: 그릴
roman: geuril
lang: Maltese
word: barbikju
lang: Māori
word: ahi mātiti
lang: Māori
word: rorerore
lang: Navajo
word: bikááʼatʼeesí
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: grill
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: grill
lang: Persian
word: باربیکیو
lang: Polish
word: grill
lang: Polish
word: ruszt
lang: Polish
word: barbecue
lang: Portuguese
word: churrasqueira
lang: Romanian
word: grătar
lang: Russian
word: барбекю́
roman: barbekjú
lang: Russian
word: гриль
roman: grilʹ
lang: Russian
word: шашлы́чница
roman: šašlýčnica
lang: Sicilian
word: gradigghia
lang: Sicilian
word: tannura
lang: Spanish
word: barbacoa
lang: Spanish
word: parrilla
lang: Spanish
word: asador
lang: Swedish
word: grill
lang: Thai
word: บาร์บีคิว
lang: Turkish
word: barbekü
lang: Ukrainian
word: барбекю́
roman: barbekjú
lang: Ukrainian
word: гриль
roman: hrylʹ
lang: Welsh
word: barbeciw