pear-shaped

Adjective

pear-shaped (comparative more pear-shaped, superlative most pear-shaped)

1. Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
   • Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent rolling off[.]2009, Lars Svensson, Collins Bird Guide, page 210

   Synonyms:

   lecythiform, piriform, pyriform

   1. Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
      • pear-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...1936 March 21, Glen Innes Examiner, NSW, page 7, column 3
2. Of a vocal or musical tone, mellow, rich, sonorous
3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Usually in the phrase go pear-shaped: wrong, awry.