Dutch oven

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Etymology

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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

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Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)

  1. (US) A large metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
    Coordinate terms: saucepan, roasting pan, roaster, stewer; cauldron; kettle
    • 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.
    • 2018 April 16, Florence Fabricant, “Get a Workout With a New Dutch Oven”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      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.
  2. A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
  3. (rail transport) A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.[2]
  4. (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[2], page 111:
      Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.
    • 1996, Jonathan Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice[3], 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, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel[4], spoken by Theodore:
      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 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House[5], season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:
      Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!
  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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Verb

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Dutch oven (third-person singular simple present Dutch ovens, present participle Dutch ovening, simple past and past participle Dutch ovened)

  1. (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[6]:
      (title)
    • 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[7]:
      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.

References

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  1. ^ Ferraro, Chris. Marijuana and College Culture, pg. 19
  2. ^ "Tubeprune" (2006 November 12 (last accessed)) “Coupling, Handing and UNDMs - Automatic Couplers”, in trainweb.org

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