"Y-shaped coffin" meaning in All languages combined

See Y-shaped coffin on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Y-shaped coffins [plural]
Etymology: Suggesting that the deceased's legs were continually open for sexual intercourse. Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: humorous
    Sense id: en-Y-shaped_coffin-en-noun-iDOL8Jir Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "Suggesting that the deceased's legs were continually open for sexual intercourse.",
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        {
          "ref": "1986, Bells (Blackadder) (TV series episode)",
          "text": "Edmund: This is the Jane Herrington?\nPercy: Yes.\nEdmund: Jane - bury-me-in-a-Y-shaped-coffin - Herrington.\nPercy: I.., I think maybe there are two Jane Herringtons.\nEdmund: No... Tall, blond, elegant?\nPercy: Right, that's right.\nEdmund: Goes like a privy door when the plague is in town?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Doctor Doom, “KittWulf the boring little woman”, in alt.butt.harp (Usenet):",
          "text": "> My mother is dead. She died last year.\nDamned funny Y-shaped coffin they buried her in.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, R.W. Finlan, Darren Bowker-Powis, Aliens Stole My Bin:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "(humorous) An imaginary coffin in the shape of a capital letter Y, supposedly used for burying a sexually promiscuous woman."
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  "etymology_text": "Suggesting that the deceased's legs were continually open for sexual intercourse.",
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    {
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      ]
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  ],
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          "ref": "1998, Doctor Doom, “KittWulf the boring little woman”, in alt.butt.harp (Usenet):",
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