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oven noun ▶ in the oven pregnant UK, 1937 Especially in the phrase “bun in the oven”.- “That’s my kid brother, Benny,” Abe used to tell the cabbies, “married six weeks and he’s already got one in the oven. A quick worker, I’ll tell you.” — Mordecai Richler, “Benny,” in Canadian Short Stories, pp. 417–18, 1960
- Poor thing has another one in the oven. — Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner, p. 51, 1970
- What about this little crumb-crusher you got in the oven here? — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 378, 1979
- To have a bun in the oven is to be pregnant. [Th]ey will not be so scared bout gettin another bun in da oven and so consequenshaly be less frigid. — Sacha Baron-Cohen, Da Gospel According to Ali G, 2001
- [W]hen my sister found she had one in the oven, she became known as the town slag[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 13, 2001
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