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Y-shaped coffin

Y-shaped coffin noun: an imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.

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.
    • 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)
    • > 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)

Forms of Y-shaped coffin

pluralY-shaped coffins

Origin of Y-shaped coffin

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

Questions about Y-shaped coffin

What does Y-shaped coffin mean?
Y-shaped coffin means an imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.
What part of speech is Y-shaped coffin?
Y-shaped coffin is a noun.
What is the plural of Y-shaped coffin?
The plural of Y-shaped coffin is Y-shaped coffins.

Words near Y-shaped coffin in the dictionary

  1. Y-mazes
  2. Y-moth
  3. Y-moths
  4. y-o-y
  5. Y-shaped
  6. Y-shaped coffin
  7. Y-shaped coffins
  8. Y-splitter
  9. Y-splitters
  10. y-system
  11. y-wing

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