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Dutch-oven

Dutch-oven is the alternative form of Dutch oven.

Meaning of Dutch oven

Verb

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

  1. (slang, transitive) To break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space.
    • (title)2012 May 7, “Dinosaur Flatulence Dutch-Ovened the Jurassic Period”, in Slate

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Forms of Dutch-oven

third-person singular presentDutch-ovens
present participleDutch-ovening
past participleDutch-ovened
pastDutch-ovened

Questions about Dutch-oven

What is Dutch-oven the alternative form of?
Dutch-oven is the alternative form of Dutch oven.

Words near Dutch-oven in the dictionary

  1. Dutch wife
  2. Dutch wives
  3. Dutch woodbine
  4. Dutch-buttocked
  5. Dutch-Kentucky syndrome
  6. Dutch-oven
  7. Dutch-ovened
  8. Dutch-ovening
  9. Dutch-ovens
  10. Dutch-processed
  11. dutched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dutch-oven (page history and authors); Dutch oven (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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