friend-shaped

English

Adjective

friend-shaped

  1. (of an animal) Cuddly, cute, friendly-looking.
    If not friend, why friend-shaped?
    • 2015 December 30, KeetahSpacecat, Spacegate World[1]:
      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.
    • 2016 March 12, lizardsister, tumblr:
      capybaras are friend shaped
    • 2021 September 29, matt (@dogfather), twitter[2], archived from the original on 30 September 2021:
      if bear not friend why friend shaped?
      if bear dangerous why tiny ears? hm?
    • 2024 June 6, Carin Leong, Allison Parshall, “‘If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?’ A Beary Scientific Investigation”, in Jeanna Bryner, editor, Scientific American[3]:
      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?