clutteredadj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] > coagulating > coagulated
liveryeOE
livered?a1300
coagulatec1386
curdya1398
clotteredc1405
curdeda1425
quailed1440
congealed1541
clustereda1547
cloddered1558
clodded1562
cluttered1577
quarry1587
curdled1590
quarred1599
settled1600
clotted1605
coagulated1633
curdly1664
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 139/1 in Chron. I Wyth the redde mantell of their cluttered bloud.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xviii. 292 Cluttred gore.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden 151 It..provoketh urine, dissolveth cluttered gravel.
2. Crowded so as to cause confusion. Also with up. Originally U.S.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > littered or cluttered
littery1847
cluttered1865
littered1870
1865 Commonwealth (Boston) 11 Mar. A little dingy room, cluttered with pots, kettles, tables and chairs.
1870 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1867–8 7 573 The slovenly, cluttered up appearance that characterizes Western habitations.
a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 189 ‘Cluttered up’ means in a litter, surrounded with too many things to do at once.
1888 Harper's Mag. Nov. 964/2 Without being cluttered, it gives a sense of the fulness of the English world.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 53 The cluttered decks of a seventy-ton schooner.
1898 R. Kipling in Morning Post 8 Nov. 5/2 Cluttered-up boxes of machinery and bags of tricks.
1910 Daily Chron. 9 Mar. 7/3 To pick up débris from a cluttered room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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