pear-shaped
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.42 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
adj
Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
Example Sentences
- "Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent rolling off[.]"
- "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 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."