Dutch oven
Dutch oven noun: a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, especially one made of metal.
Noun
Dutch oven (plural Dutch ovens)
- A 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
- 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...2018 April 16, Florence Fabricant, “Get a Workout With a New Dutch Oven”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
- A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
- The 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
- 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
- A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
- The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, oven.
Verb
Dutch oven (third-person singular simple present Dutch ovens, present participle Dutch ovening, simple past and past participle Dutch ovened)
- 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
- 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
Forms of Dutch oven
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Dutch ovens |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | Dutch ovens |
| present participle | Dutch ovening |
| past participle | Dutch ovened |
| past | Dutch ovened |
Origin of Dutch oven
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.
Questions about Dutch oven
- What does Dutch oven mean?
- Dutch oven means a large cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid, especially one made of metal.
- What part of speech is Dutch oven?
- Dutch oven can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of Dutch oven?
- The plural of Dutch oven is Dutch ovens.
Words near Dutch oven in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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