Resembling or having the characteristics of a bay; shaped like or functioning like a bay.
Compound of 'bay' and '-like,' from Old English 'gelīc' (similar). The '-like' suffix became increasingly productive in English from the Middle English period onward as a way to create similarity comparisons.
The '-like' suffix is so common in English that we barely notice it—lakeside, starlike, lifelike—but it's one of the language's most efficient word-creation tools, letting us instantly describe anything by comparing it to something else.
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