Dutch oven

plural Dutch ovens

1. USA 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

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   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. rail transportA protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
4. slangThe 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

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   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

   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

   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

5. A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
6. slangThe very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.

present singular third person Dutch ovens · participle present Dutch ovening · participle past Dutch ovened · past Dutch ovened

1. slangtransitiveTo break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space.

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   2012 May 7, “Dinosaur Flatulence Dutch-Ovened the Jurassic Period”, in Slate

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   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