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comparative more pear-shaped, superlative most pear-shaped
Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear. quotations
Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent rolling off[.]
2009, Lars Svensson, Collins Bird Guide, page 210
Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution. quotations examples
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.
1936 March 21, Glen Innes Examiner, NSW, page 7, column 3
(slang) Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.