Dutch oven
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9.9
- noun
- /dʌtʃ ˈʌvən/
- Offensive
:
pedo bajo las sábanas
- Don't Dutch oven me!
Examples
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He pulled a Dutch oven on his roommate during movie night.
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At the sleepover, someone laughed after a Dutch oven left everyone complaining about the smell.
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She warned him not to try a Dutch oven since it might seriously embarrass the other person.
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He pulled a Dutch oven prank on his friend last night.
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He thought it would be funny to pull a Dutch oven on his roommate while they were watching a movie.
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During the sleepover, Jake playfully tried to give everyone a Dutch oven by tucking them under the covers.
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They were laughing after James successfully executed a Dutch oven and everyone scrambled out of bed.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Dutch + oven
The slang meaning (trapping someone under covers and passing gas) is not derivable from 'Dutch' (relating to the Netherlands) + 'oven' (a cooking appliance); there is no semantic link to flatulence or bedcovers, so the sense is idiomatic and unpredictable. Additionally, the same collocation has a literal non-slang referent (a heavy cooking pot), which increases ambiguity; the prank sense is culturally specific slang and would not be inferred by a B1 learner knowing the constituent words.
Etymology
Dutch oven as a slang is a joke name that uses the idea of an 'oven' with a closed lid: someone is trapped under the covers so the bad smell stays inside. So it means 'to trap someone under covers and pass gas'.