Dutch oven
English
Etymology
Dutch (“substitute, inferior, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)
- A large metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
- 1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June:
- I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.
- 1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June:
- A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
- (rail transport) A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.[2]
- (slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.
- 1996 Bart Plantenga, "Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation" page 111
- Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.
- 1996 Jonathan Green "Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice" page 191
- a Dutch oven, most commonly a large pot heated by surrounding it with fuel, and placing hot coals on the lid, can also be a mouth. Not only that - it can also be the smell of a bed in which someone has just farted.
- 2009 Theodore in "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel", debuted December 23
- Oh, man! Dutch oven! Not the Dutch oven! Anything but the Dutch oven! Must find fresh air before it's too late! It's too late! It burns. Mama, it burns!
- 2016 Lynn Loud "Space Invader" The Loud House episode 6, debuted May 20
- Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!
- Dutch oven! Goodnight Lincoln.
- 1996 Bart Plantenga, "Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation" page 111
- A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
- (slang) The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.
Translations
cooking pot
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Verb
Dutch oven (third-person singular simple present Dutch ovens, present participle Dutch ovening, simple past and past participle Dutch ovened)
- (slang) To break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space.
- 2012 May 7, “Dinosaur Flatulence Dutch-Ovened the Jurassic Period”, in Slate:
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- 2022 August 17, Brittany Sims, “The View’s Whoopi Goldberg was 'scared' for granddaughter to join reality show- but gave her 'best' advice about new gig”, in The Sun:
- Robin Williams and Billy Crystal standing in an elevator, and Robin Williams was just farting his life away. I guess they were Dutch-ovening each other, just basking in the ambiance of farts.
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References
- Ferraro, Chris. Marijuana and College Culture, pg. 19
- "Tubeprune" (accessed 2006-11-12), “Coupling, Handing and UNDMs - Automatic Couplers”, in (please provide the title of the work)Couplers