Present participle of barbeque; the act of cooking food slowly over hot coals or smoke.
From Spanish 'barbacoa' via English 'barbecue,' with the progressive '-ing' suffix added to show an action in progress.
Barbequing is one of humanity's oldest cooking methods—archaeologists have found evidence that people were slow-roasting meat in pits over 7,000 years ago, but the Caribbean word 'barbacoa' became so popular it replaced all the older terms.
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