clutter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A messy, disordered collection of things

   I can't find anything on my desk because of all the clutter.

2. 2
   verb

   To fill a space with too many things in a messy way

   Old boxes and broken toys cluttered the garage.

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

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