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”, 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.