Clotters

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To become thick and lumpy as a result of congealing
2. To form clumps or clusters as in the case of fluids or substances
3. The act of causing a viscous mixture to clump together and solidify

Etymology: "Clotters" is the third-person singular present form of "clotter," a verb meaning to form thick lumps. It is built directly on "clot," the older and more familiar word, with the "-er" ending that English uses to make a verb that repeats or carries out an action in small, repeated steps, much as "spatter" and "flutter" do. So the verb describes something that keeps gathering into clumps, rather than a single clot forming all at once. The base word "clot" is the one to watch. It goes back to Old English "clott," meaning a lump or mass, and it is related to the idea of something that has coagulated or gathered together. The link between a lump of curds, a clump of earth and a clot of blood is that each is a mass that has thickened and stuck together from a looser substance.

Synonyms: clutters, messes, disorders, chaos, jumbles

Antonyms: organizes, cleans, arranges, tidies, sorts