Dutch oven
English
Etymology
Dutch has the dated pejorative sense of substitute, inferior, ersatz, etc. due to the ingenuity of poor Germanic immigrants settling in the Anglosphere in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first definition of this term carries the sense of a cheap substitute for a proper oven.
Pronunciation
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Noun
Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)
- A large metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
- 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.[1]
- (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
- 2016 Lynn Loud "Space Invader" The Loud House episode 6, debuted May 20
- 1996 Bart Plantenga, "Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation" page 111
- A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
- The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana. This usage of the term is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[2]
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.
Translations
cooking pot
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References
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- ^ Ferraro, Chris. Marijuana and College Culture, pg. 19