Clutter
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late Middle English: variant of dialect clotter ‘to clot’, influenced by cluster and clatter.
wiktionary
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”).
etymonline
clutter (v.)
1550s, "to collect in heaps, crowd together in disorder," variant of clotern "to form clots, to heap on" (c. 1400); related to clot (n.), and perhaps influenced by cluster. Sense of "to litter, to crowd (a place) by a disorderly mass of things" is first recorded 1660s. Related: Cluttered; cluttering.
clutter (n.)
1570s, "things lying in heaps or crowded confusion," from clutter (v.).
