clutteringn.
/ˈklʌtərɪŋ/ The action of clutter v., in various senses.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running > in crowded and bustling disorder
cluttering1583
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding > disorderly crowded condition > crowding together in disorderly way
cluttering1583
huddling1592
pigging1898
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > clattering
clatteringc1400
clitter-clatter1535
clatter1578
reesle1608
slattering1661
clutter-clutter1691
cluttering1844
strepitation1913
the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun]
oblocution?a1475
hacking1539
misspeaking1650
babble1667
dysphonia1706
inarticulateness1731
inarticulation1765
garble1795
thickness1849
dyslalia1854
dyslaly1856
misarticulation1866
dysarthria1877
dysarthrosis1877
cluttering1878
anarthria1879
inarticulacy1921
dysphasia-
1583 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 6 Thumping, shuffing, and cluttering.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. xci. 369 The noueltie of Cooches scath'd me so, As from their drifts and cluttering I knew not where to go.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. x. 160 The cluttering of Trees together to keep the Sun off from him.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxvi. 417 Noisy with the..cluttering of fowls in coops.
1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XIV. 817 The defect of speech called by..the English Cluttering.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
clutteringadj.
That clutters; speaking with hurried and confused utterance.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [adjective]
short-tonguedc1575
cluttering1748
thick-tongued1887
1748 J. Mason Ess. Elocution 17 To cure a thick confused cluttering Voice.
a1791 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 519 Speaking in a thick, cluttering manner.
Derivatives
ˈclutteringly adv.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adverb]
pelly mellya1500
ribble-rabble?a1525
confusely1540
huddlea1555
confusedly1566
pell-mell1579
tag-rag1582
helter-skelter1593
promiscuously1593
pell-mell1596
confusively1599
mel-pella1600
promiscually1602
squimble-squamble1611
promiscuous1616
clutteringly1624
promiscously1635
perplexly1670
skimble-skamble1775
skimper-scamper1778
hodge-podge1848
hugger-mugger1880
rumble-jumble1887
muddledly1914
1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? iv. 48 Masters..that goe workmanlike, and not like you, clutteringly to worke.
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n.1583
adj.1624