Resembling or having the appearance or characteristics of a gutter; shaped like a channel or groove.
Compound adjective combining 'gutter' and the suffix '-like' (Old English 'gelíc,' meaning 'similar'). This is a productive English pattern for creating descriptive adjectives from nouns.
English loves the '-like' suffix because it lets us instantly create analogies—'gutterlike' tells you the shape without needing a long comparison, showing how languages evolve shortcuts for common descriptions.
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