different between barbecue vs barbecuer

English

Alternative forms

• (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

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 barbacoa.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??b??kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   Coordinate terms: grill, boucan

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

3. 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.

4. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. 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.

6. (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.

Synonyms

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

Derived terms

• barbecue sauce
• barbie
• BBQ

Related terms

• barbacoa

Translations

Verb

barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)

1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. To grill.

Synonyms

• (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?rb?kju/
• Hyphenation: bar?be?cue

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)

1. barbecue

Derived terms

• barbecueën/barbecuen

Verb

barbecue

1. first-person singular present indicative of barbecueën
2. imperative of barbecueën
3. first-person singular present indicative of barbecuen
4. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of barbecuen
5. imperative of barbecuen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English barbecue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?.b?.ky/

Noun

barbecue m (plural barbecues)

1. barbecue

Further reading

• “barbecue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Etymology

From English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bar?b?k.ju/

Noun

barbecue n (indeclinable)

1. barbecue (cooking instrument)

   Synonyms: ruszt, grill

2. barbecue (meal)

   Synonym: grill

3. barbecue sauce

Further reading

• barbecue in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

barbecue +? -er

Noun

barbecuer (plural barbecuers)

1. One who (or a device which) barbecues.