Cluttername

• 1

  A surname.

clutternoun/ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/

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  A confused disordered jumble of things.

  • He saw what a Clutter there was with Huge, Over-grown Pots, Pans, and Spits.
  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
• 2

  Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.

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  obsoleteClatter; confused noise.

  • 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
  • It was then you might have heard a clutter: pots, pans and pitchers, mugs, jugs and jordens, all put themselves in motion at once[…]
• 4

  mathematicssciencesA Sperner family.

clutterverb/ˈklʌtə(ɹ)/

• 1

  To fill something with clutter.

  • That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
• 2

  obsoleteTo clot or coagulate, like blood.

  • It battereth and cluttereth into knots and balls
• 3

  To make a confused noise; to bustle.

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

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• clowder