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clutter (v.)
[clutter 词源字典]
1550s, "to collect in heaps," variant of
clotern
"to form clots, to heap on" (c. 1400); related to
clot
(n.). Sense of "to litter" is first recorded 1660s. Related:
Cluttered
;
cluttering
.
[clutter etymology, clutter origin, 英语词源]
clutter (n.)
1570s, "things lying in heaps or confusion," from
clutter
(v.); the "litter" sense is from 1660s.