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English
Etymology
Suggesting that the deceased's legs were continually open for sexual intercourse.
Noun
Y-shaped coffin (plural Y-shaped coffins)
- (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”, in alt.butt.harp (Usenet):> My mother is dead. She died last year.
Damned funny Y-shaped coffin they buried her in.
2012, 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.