bottom-heavyadj.

1819 Maryland Gaz. 2 Dec. All things being ready..attempted to beat out of Vauxhall harbor, but owing to her being rather bottom heavy, put back, to shift ballast, alter time, &c.

1896 C. H. Cochrane Wonders Mod. Mechanism 307 George Focht devised an iron bucket so shaped that it was top-heavy when filled and bottom-heavy when empty.

1903 Inland Printer July 571/2 The first page of the Post is certainly not bottom-heavy... The placing of shortest items first is not to afford contrast, but to secure a neat effect.

1939 Times 5 May 15/4 Indoors, in a jar, they [sc. bluebells] are weak, cold, bottom-heavy, and a little vulgar.

1971 Times 16 Feb. 8/5 In his younger days they said he was too short, and ‘bottom heavy’. Now they talk about his neck, chest and thighs.

2005 Independent 21 Nov. 11/2 Just over 20 per cent of women were bottom-heavy ‘spoons’, or pear shapes, with hips two inches larger than busts or more.

1895 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 11 Nov. 6/3 Municipalities are becoming topheavy [sic] and bottom heavy, corrupt and rotten, and they must totter and fall if a change is not wrought.

1940 Bath Weekly Chron. & Herald 16 Nov. 11/3 Just now the school is ‘bottom heavy’. The mass of entries has been to the junior and middle forms.

1992 Independent 21 Feb. 12/5 The researchers found ‘a bottom-heavy structure with men dominating the senior posts and women monopolising the large base of junior, administrative, clerical and secretarial grades’.

1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) x. 263 The entire planet bottom-heavy with people under twenty-five.

1927 Sunday Times 6 Mar. 7/3 The double basses are generally too plentiful at these concerts, and..they too often made the music sound bottom-heavy.

1973 Gramophone Sept. 556/2 The much-praised recording strikes me as being rather muddy and bottom-heavy.

2007 New Yorker 23 Apr. 12/3 The Washington, D.C., guitarist and singer Chuck Brown..is known as the godfather of go-go..that bottom-heavy funk sub-genre.