clutter

clutter
clutter (v.) 1550s, "to collect in heaps," variant of clotern "to form clots, to heap on" (c.1400); related to CLOT (Cf. clot). Sense of "to litter" is first recorded 1660s. As a noun, from 1570s; the "litter" sense is from 1660s. Related: Cluttered; cluttering.

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