# 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.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Noun

Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)
* (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, →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.
* 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.
* (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, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel‎, 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, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!
* 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
### 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:(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: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

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

### Further reading

* “Dutch oven n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present