Y-shaped coffin

English

Etymology

Suggesting that the deceased's legs were continually open for sexual intercourse.

Noun

Y-shaped coffin (plural Y-shaped coffins)

  1. (humorous) An imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.
    • 1986, Bells (Blackadder) (TV series episode)
      Edmund: This is the Jane Herrington?
      Percy: Yes.
      Edmund: Jane - bury-me-in-a-Y-shaped-coffin - Herrington.
      Percy: I.., I think maybe there are two Jane Herringtons.
      Edmund: No... Tall, blond, elegant?
      Percy: Right, that's right.
      Edmund: Goes like a privy door when the plague is in town?
    • 1998, "Doctor Doom", KittWulf the boring little woman (on newsgroup alt.butt.harp)
      > My mother is dead. She died last year.
      Damned funny Y-shaped coffin they buried her in.
    • R.W. Finlan, ‎Darren Bowker-Powis, Aliens Stole My Bin
      And that Sandra 'Bury me in a Y shaped coffin' Jeffries' last child wasn't her husband's? Nor was her second girl, I mean, you've only got to look at the eyes to know that.
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