clutter

Meanings

Noun

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

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).

Origin

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