Resembling or having the characteristics of a hammock, such as being suspended, sagging in the middle, or gently curved.
From hammock (from Taíno hamáka, a Caribbean language word adopted into English in the 1600s) + like (Old English -lic, meaning 'having the form of'). Productive compound formation in modern English.
The word 'hammock' itself is one of the few English words from the Taíno language of the Caribbean—a reminder of the Caribbean peoples who invented this brilliant suspended-net design, and how global trade and colonization spread not just goods but their names worldwide.
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