clutter
see also: Clutter
Pronunciation Noun
Clutter
Proper noun
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see also: Clutter
Pronunciation Noun
clutter
- (uncountable) A confused disordered jumble of things.
- He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
- (uncountable) Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
- (countable) A group of cats; the collective noun for cats.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- Organizing ghost stories is like herding a clutter of cats: the phenomenon resists organization and classification.
- 2008, John Robert Colombo, The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, Introduction
- (obsolete) Clatter; confused noise.
- 1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works (volume 1, page 33)
- It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once […]
- 1835, William Cobbett, John Morgan Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett, Selections from Cobbett's political works (volume 1, page 33)
- French: bric-à-brac, bordel, encombrement
- German: Unordnung, Wirrwarr, Durcheinander, Verwirrung
- Italian: confusione, disordine, scompiglio
- Portuguese: bagunça, desordem
- Russian: беспоря́док
- Spanish: desorden, revoltijo, enredo
- Russian: помеха
clutter (clutters, present participle cluttering; past and past participle cluttered)
- To fill something with clutter#Noun|clutter.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To clot or coagulate, like blood.
- To make a confused noise; to bustle.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- It [the goose] cluttered here, it chuckled there.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Goose
- To utter words hurriedly, especially (but not exclusively) as a speech disorder (compare cluttering).
- German: poltern
Clutter
Proper noun
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