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cluttery en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English clutter Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English cluttery From clutter + -y.

Meanings

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.
   • ... days were dark and rainy, not, perhaps, days of a steady, dull downpour, but wild and gusty with bursts of rain that make puddles everywhere- "cluttery weather" I have heard my friend the gamekeeper call this when it comes in spring. 1908, George Albemarle Bertie Dewar, Life and Sport in Hampshire, page 45:
   • "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:
   • [...] wind changed too, with the schooner being assailed by gusts and squalls that kept turning her sails aback, with thunderous detonations of canvas. Mr Crowle was on the first watch of the night, and Zachary knew that the cluttery weather would serve to keep him occupied on deck. 2009 September 29, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 420:

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