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Definition of Cluttery
1. characterized by disorder [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cluttery
Literary usage of Cluttery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"N. IL Clung [klung], adj. hard, as wood when it has become dry and tough.—NH
Clutch [kluch], adj. close. Ex. ' Ho holds it quite clutch.'—Cooper. cluttery. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"See Cotton's Works, 1734, p. 13. (3) A plough-coulter. South. CLUTTER-FISTED.
Having large fista. Sœ Armin's Nest of Ninnies, p. 27. cluttery. Changeable. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"Engl. p. 94. (3) A plough-coulter. South. CLUTTER-FISTED. Having large fists.
Sec Armin's Nest of Ninnies, p. 27. cluttery ..."
4. The Doctor in War by Woods Hutchinson (1918)
"So I listened, and sure enough, before very long, there came a rushing, whizzing
sound, which suddenly changed to a cluttery, clattery, clack, ..."
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