ˈcluttered, ppl. a.
[f. clutter v. + -ed.]
† 1. Run together in clots, clotted, coagulated; = clottered. Obs.
| 1577–87 Holinshed England v. xv. I. 94/2 With the red mantle of their cluttered bloud. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. xviii, Cluttered gore. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden 151 It..provoketh urine, dissolveth cluttered gravel. |
2. Crowded so as to cause confusion. Also with up. orig. U.S.
| 1865 Commonwealth (Boston) 11 Mar., A little dingy room, cluttered with pots, kettles, tables and chairs. 1869 Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1867–8 VII. 573 The slovenly, cluttered up appearance that characterizes Western habitations. a 1887 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 Kipling Capt. Cour. 53 The cluttered decks of a seventy-ton schooner. 1898 ― in Morn. 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. |