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barbeque en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable) Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).
    alt of barbecue
    • ‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’ 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 152:
    • She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill. 2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
barbeques Number=Plur lexicographic

barbeque en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes) Alternative spelling of barbecue.
    alt of barbecue
    • When they arrived, Masha and Natasha joined the other girls in the kitchen, and Pasha scurried Seth out into the great outdoors with the men to barbeque shashliki, a delicious Russian marinated meat. 2013, Kenneth Eade, chapter 22, in An Involuntary Spy, New York, N.Y.: Times Square Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
barbeques Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
barbequing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barbequeing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barbequed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
barbequed Tense=Past lexicographic