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Barbecue vs Barbecuer - What's the difference?

barbecue | barbecuer |

As nouns the difference between barbecue and barbecuer

is that barbecue is a fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium while barbecuer is agent noun of barbecue; one who barbecues.

As a verb barbecue

is to cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

barbecue

English

(wikipedia barbecue)

Alternative forms

* barbeque * BBQ (informal abbreviation) * bar-be-que, bar-b-que (informal forms based on the abbreviation) * (meat) 'cue, 'que, que (informal shortenings)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
    • We cooked our food on the barbecue .
  • 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.

    Synonyms

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

    Derived terms

    * barbecue sauce * barbie

    Verb

    (barbecu)
  • To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
  • To grill.

    • barbecuer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of barbecue; one who barbecues.
  • * 2005 , Lolis Eric Elie, Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country , p. 122:
    • We were playing cards one day and I said, "We've been barbecuing all our lives and I'm the best barbecuer in the state of Georgia".
    English agent nouns