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Y-shaped coffin en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (humorous) An imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.
   • > My mother is dead. She died last year. Damned funny Y-shaped coffin they buried her in. 1998, Doctor Doom, “KittWulf the boring little woman”, in alt.butt.harp (Usenet):
   • 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. 2012, R.W. Finlan, Darren Bowker-Powis, Aliens Stole My Bin:
   • 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? 1986, Bells (Blackadder) (TV series episode)

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