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Clutter

//ˈklʌtɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A confused disordered jumble of things. uncountable

    "He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits."

  2. 2
    unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen wordnet
  3. 3
    Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen. uncountable
  4. 4
    a confused multitude of things wordnet
  5. 5
    Alternative form of clowder (“collective noun for cats”). alt-of, alternative, countable

    "Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification."

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  1. 6
    Clatter; confused noise. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "October 14 1718, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift I hardly heard a word of news or politicks, except a little clutter about sending some impertinent presidents du parliament to prison"

  2. 7
    A Sperner family. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To fill something with clutter. transitive

    "That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters."

  2. 2
    fill a space in a disorderly way wordnet
  3. 3
    To clot or coagulate, like blood. intransitive, obsolete

    "It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls"

  4. 4
    To make a confused noise; to bustle. intransitive

    "It [the goose] clutter'd here, it chuckled there; / It stirr'd the old wife's mettle: / She shifted in her elbow-chair, / And hurl'd the pan and kettle."

  5. 5
    To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering). intransitive, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English cloteren (“to form clots; coagulate; heap on”), from clot (“clot”), equivalent to clot + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare Welsh cludair (“heap, pile”), cludeirio (“to heap”).

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