Resembling or having the qualities of a barge; flat-bottomed, broad, or designed for cargo transport.
From 'barge' plus '-like' (from Old English 'gelic' meaning 'similar'). The '-like' suffix creates comparisons and is one of English's most productive word-formation tools.
The '-like' suffix is so productive that English speakers can make almost any word into a comparison—'barge-like,' 'mountain-like,' 'alien-like'—which means we're constantly creating new adjectives on the fly, and most people understand them immediately.
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