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Dutch oven en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Dutch (“makeshift, substitutional, replacement, 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.

Meanings

1. (US) A large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, especially one made of metal.
   • 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
   • Cast-iron cookware is in the spotlight. Having started with skillets, producers are now introducing Dutch ovens. Despite already owning pots from Staub and Le Creuset, I could not resist the new Dutch oven by Finex Cast Iron Cookware, an American company that makes distinctive octagonal pieces with a dark bronze finish. 2018 April 16, Florence Fabricant, “Get a Workout With a New Dutch Oven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
2. A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
3. A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
4. (slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.
   • Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets. 1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111:
   • 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. 1996, Jonathon Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice, page 191:
   • Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven! 2016 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:
   • 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! 2009, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, spoken by Theodore:
5. A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
6. (slang) The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.

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Coordinates

kettle · saucepan · casserole · stockpot · stewpot · roasting pan · oven dish · cauldron · pot-au-feu · roaster · stewer

Translations (11)

sv gjutjärnsgryta (cooking pot) · pl kociołek żeliwny (cooking pot) · ko 더치 오븐 (cooking pot) · nl braadpan (cooking pot) · de Kokotte (cooking pot) · sv stekgryta (cooking pot) · fi valurautapata (cooking pot) · es olla de hierro (cooking pot) · fr cocotte (cooking pot) · de Dutch Oven (cooking pot) · jam Dutch pot (cooking pot)

Dutch oven en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From Dutch (“makeshift, substitutional, replacement, 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.

Meanings

1. (slang, transitive) To break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space.
   • 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. 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:
   • (title) 2012 May 7, “Dinosaur Flatulence Dutch-Ovened the Jurassic Period”, in Slate:

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