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kentishbear | 12:56 Tue 14th Apr 2009 | Phrases & Sayings
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where did the saying "bun in the oven" meaning to be pregnant, come from and when was it first used?

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One source offers this:
"...The phrase is 20th century. The first citation I can find is in Nicholas Monsarrat's Cruel Sea, 1951:

"'I bet you left a bun in the oven, both of you,' said Bennett thickly... Lockhart explained ... the reference to pregnancy."
Cassell's Dict of Slang indicates that oven is 1940s+ slang for womb hence bun in the oven
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