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Y-shaped coffins

Y-shaped coffins is the plural of Y-shaped coffin.

Meaning of Y-shaped coffin

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)

Questions about Y-shaped coffins

What is Y-shaped coffins the plural of?
Y-shaped coffins is the plural of Y-shaped coffin.

Words near Y-shaped coffins in the dictionary

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

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