英语词汇clutter的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	clutter
词源	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.). Entries linking to clutter clot n. Old English clott "a round mass, lump," from Proto-Germanic *klutto- (source also of Dutch kloot "ball," Danish klods "a block, lump," German Klotz "lump, block"); probably related to or confused with cleat and clod (q.v.). Of blood from 1610s, cluster n. Old English clyster "a number of things growing naturally together," probably from the same root as clot (n.). Meaning "a number of persons, animals, or things gathered in a close body" is from c. 1400. Of stars, from 1727. Cluster-bomb attested by 1950. clowder n. 1801, also cludder, a variant of clutter (n.). updated on January 02, 2018
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