dutch oven
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.89 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
noun
The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.
Slang
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets."
- "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."
- "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!"
- "Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!"
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.
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Transitive verb