clutter

Pronunciation: /ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/

The English word “clutter” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

A confused disordered jumble of things.
Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
Clatter; confused noise.
A Sperner family.

verb

To fill something with clutter.
To clot or coagulate, like blood.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).

Etymology

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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