Resembling or having the characteristics of a flag in shape, appearance, or function.
From 'flag' plus the suffix '-like' (meaning similar to or resembling), which comes from Old English 'lic' meaning 'body' or 'form'. The '-like' suffix compares one thing to another.
The '-like' suffix is so productive in English that we can stick it onto almost anything to describe similarity—'catlike,' 'dreamlike,' 'bulletlike'—and it's been doing this work since Old English times!
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