Y-shaped coffin

noun

An imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounY-shaped coffin (plural Y-shaped coffins)

plural Y-shaped coffins

  1. humorousAn 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)
    2 more examples

    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)

    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

Origin

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

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Y-shaped coffin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Y-shaped%20coffin

MLA

“Y-shaped coffin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Y-shaped%20coffin. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Y-shaped coffin,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Y-shaped%20coffin.

Source: Y-shaped coffin on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.