clowder

Meaning

Noun

• A group of cats or other small felines.

Related

Similar words

• glaring

Narrower meaning words

• kindle

Origin

• A variation, recorded since 1801, of clutter, itself from clot, from Old English clott ("round mass, lump"), from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz (hence cognate with Dutch kloot ("ball, testicle"), Danish klods ("a block, lump") and German Klotz ("lump, block")).