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friend-shaped en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (of an animal) Cuddly, cute, friendly-looking.
    • If not friend, why friend-shaped?
    • There’s a meme about bears floating around the Internet: “If not friend, why friend-shaped?” ¶ This is an intriguing question if you decide to take it seriously. Most deadly apex predators have a certain ferocity to them that doesn’t scream “friend”—think lions, wolves and crocodiles. So why do bears seem so cute and cuddly? 2024 June 6, Carin Leong, Allison Parshall, “‘If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?’ A Beary Scientific Investigation”, in Jeanna Bryner, editor, Scientific American:
    • if bear not friend why friend shaped? 2021 September 29, matt (@dogfather), twitter, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2021:
    • 5. Someone requested during the week what the bros would look like grown up in blaster form. Sans is forever short. Pap is friend shaped. 2015 December 30, KeetahSpacecat, Spacegate World:
    • capybaras are friend shaped 2016 March 12, lizardsister, tumblr: