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cluttery

cluttery adjective: cluttered; full of clutter.

Adjective

cluttery (comparative more cluttery, superlative most cluttery)

  1. Cluttered; full of clutter.
    • a large, cluttery attic
  2. Resembling or characteristic of clutter.
    • a room full of cluttery junk
  3. (England, dialectal) Rainy, stormy, or inclined to be.
    • "One cluttery night in November, thirty of our Ashbury chaps thay started down to Longcott, and dug 'un up, and brought 'un cler away on handspikes, all the waay to the Crown'd Inn at Ashbury, and 'tis quite vour mil'd."1859, Thomas Hughes, The Scouring of the White Horse: Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk, page 129
    • "'tis cluttery weather, an' no mistake. Fight my way up your path I did, though I baint so easy to upset, neither."1894, The Argosy, page 245

Forms of cluttery

comparativemore cluttery
superlativemost cluttery

Origin of cluttery

From clutter + -y.

Questions about cluttery

What does cluttery mean?
Cluttery means cluttered; full of clutter.
What part of speech is cluttery?
Cluttery is an adjective.

Words near cluttery in the dictionary

  1. clutterlessness
  2. clutterous
  3. clutters
  4. clutters up
  5. cluttersome
  6. cluttery
  7. Clutton
  8. Cluttons
  9. Clutts
  10. Cluttses
  11. clutz

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