English edit

Etymology edit

serf +‎ -like

Adjective edit

serflike (comparative more serflike, superlative most serflike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a serf.
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 116:
      Millions were reduced to serflike conditions where a small white elite dominated different groups of black and white sharecroppers, indebted tenants and permanent debtors virtually enslaved through peonage.