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barbecued

barbecued

3 1.4
Cooked outdoors on a grill with a smoky flavor
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɑːrbɪkjuːd/
translation icon : a la parrilla
  • Barbecued spare ribs?
  • barbecued ribs
  • barbecued pork
  • barbecued beef

And then you can get a regular bag of Fritos barbecued BBQ Fritos.

Examples

  • There were all sorts of snacks, dips, cakes, fruit, barbecued meat, crackers, drinks, etc. available.

    Blog text (27)

  • There's an out-of-the-way restaurant in the county that serves the best barbecued ribs I've ever tasted.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • I should be a celebrity chef, and these barbecued ribs should be on my show.

    Arsenal (2017)

  • Uh, barbecued ribs would be good, with no sauce and a Coke.

    Owning Mahowny (2003)

  • Barbecued pig, as Elliott put it.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Hopefully he'd remember to wash his hands before he prepared my barbecued ribs.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • "Hot Biscuits," "Barbecued Chicken," "Barbecued Fish," and "Watermelon," said others.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Barbecued seaworms.

    Birth of the Dragon (2017)

  • The restaurant's specialty is their barbecued chicken, which has a smoky flavor that customers love.

  • At the summer picnic, we enjoyed tender barbecued ribs with a side of grilled vegetables.

Synonyms

grilled
vsbarbecued
1 1.0

Cooked over hot metal bars above a fire, like steak or vegetables

uses longer outdoor heat to create a strong charred wood aroma
smoked
vsbarbecued
1 2.1

Meat or fish dried and given a smoky flavor by burning wood

is outdoor cooking using direct heat and quicker cooking rather than long curing

Compounds

barbecued spareribs
2.1

Pork ribs cooked with a spicy sauce, often over a grill

barbecued wing
1.8

A chicken wing cooked with a sweet, smoky sauce, usually grilled or baked

How Smoky

smoked
1 2.1
barbecued
3 1.4
grilled
1 1.0

Surface Forms

barbecued positive

Morphology

barbecued = barbecue (transparent) = barbecue + ed

The adjectival sense is the past participle of the verb 'barbecue' and its meaning ('cooked on a barbecue') is directly derived.

Etymology

Barbecued comes from the Spanish word barbacoa, from a Caribbean language that meant a 'framework of sticks' used to cook food over a fire. You can see the same idea in the common word barbecue, so something 'barbecued' is cooked outdoors on a grill and has a smoky flavor.