CLUTTER, noun 1. A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion; a word of domestic application. He saw what a clutter there was with huge pots, pans and spits. 2. Noise; bustle. [This sense seems allied to clatter, but it is not the sense of the word in noun England.] CLUTTER, verb transitive To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion; as, to clutter a room; to clutter the house. CLUTTER, verb intransitive To make a bustle, or fill with confusion. [The English lexicographers explain this word by noise and bustle; but probably by mistake.]
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