Meaning of pear-shaped | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
2. Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
3. rich, mellow, sonorous
4. Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

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Examples

“Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent⟳ rolling off[.]”

“pear-shaped obesity versus apple-shaped obesity”

“Just as one should take⟳ sitting-up exercises every day to keep⟳ one's figure⟳ from going pear-shaped in the hips, one should spend⟳ at least a little time, even if it is only very little, sloughing off mental flabbiness by thinking, studying or just reading something that requires an exercising effort of the mind⟳ to understand⟳, memorise or digest.”

“Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die⟳ -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.”

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