Pear shaped

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Pear shaped
Pear-shaped is a metaphorical term with several meanings, all in reference to the shape of a pear, i.e. tapering towards the top and rounded at the bottom.The oldest usage from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the most literal, a 1731 reference in a gardening dictionary comparing the shape of the fruit of the cashew, or avocado to that of a pear. The comparison is less literal when the term is applied to people, where it means wide at the hips, a use that goes back to at least 1815, and one that can have either positive connotations (as in Venus figurines) or negative, depending upon the context.
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pear-shaped
Adjective
1. having a round shape tapered at one end
(similar) round, circular
2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
(synonym) orotund, rotund, round
(similar) full



Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Pear-shaped
(a.)
Of the form of a pear.
  

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pear-shaped
pear-shaped /'peəʃeipt/
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pear-shaped
adj. ซึ่งมีรูปร่างเหมือนลูกแพร์ (syn. oval, egg-shaped) slang. ผิดพลาด

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