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Adjective: pear-shaped  pehr sheypt
  1. Having a round shape tapered at one end
     
  2. (of sounds) full and rich
    "pear-shaped vowels";
    - orotund, rotund, round
     
  3. [Brit, informal] Wrong or bad
    "after I left everything went pear-shaped"

See also: circular, full, round

Encyclopedia: Pear-shaped