Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A group of cats.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a group of cats.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a group of cats
Etymologies
- Related to clutter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“May 19, 2007 at 12:23 pm group of cats is called a clowder akshully also is archaic form of clutter and thus more ellygant, forsooth”
In ur yardz… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Did you know that a group of cats is called a clowder?”
“The performance of this clowder cast is captivating.”
The Huffington Post: James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West
“Participants were required to rearrange the panels of the not-so-sequential art to put them in narrative order -- and ultimately had to "do the math" and count a clowder of cartoon cats.”
The Washington Post: POST HUNT: When a comic strip stands between you and $2K
“It also has fun facts – Did you know a group of kittens is called a ‘kindle’ and a group of cats a ‘clowder’?”
“Some examples: A shrewdness of apes, cete of badgers, army of caterpillars, knot of toads, unkindness of ravens, or a clowder of cats. link”
“How about a 'clutter' or 'cluster', 'clowder' or a 'glaring'.”
“Foolishly, they grossly over-estimated their appeal by booking the 02, only for the top tier to be curtained off and there being enough room for everyone to swing a clowder of cats downstairs.”
“Probable Claws, an entire clowder of shelter cats get the ball rolling when they eat some tainted kibble.”
“Maybe it had no reason to fear me, but why didn't it show any fear of a clowder that had slaughtered so many of its peers?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clowder’.
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cats
alleycat, baudrons, bobcat, caracal, catamount, catamountain, cathood, catlike, cattish, cattishly, cheetah, chetah and 118 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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Words I Intend to use.
selectarian, solastalgia, niefling, eldritch, santagnostic, laborious, obstreperous, quibble, inusitate, cacology, tmesis, cacoethes and 50 more...
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Browning words of cotton - often stic...
words that meander or have a partial dimension:
words that "catch on": peano curves: fractalitescotton, clue, filament, filaria, filum, filovirus, clod, cloud, peano curve, alveoli, nuance, noil and 122 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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recent discoveries
weird, wonderful new additions to my lexicon.
hyperopia, cunctator, pilosity, bescumber, virago, gimcrack, roborant, besprinkle, crack spread, gewgaw, flagitious, ancillary and 37 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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Murders of crows
murder, scandal, herd, gaggle, bevy, nuisance, yoke, raft, ostentation, school, cote, shoal and 31 more...
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library school!
I'm working on my MLS, and hoarding words along the way.
neurasthenic, syndetic, corbel, karst, charrette, magnetar, realia, deacquisition, additur, lapecide, eutaxy, extradiegetic and 20 more...
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a herd of words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clowder.
knitandpurl "After the smoke and cordite cleared and the clowder of little-girl voices quit their chiming screams, Lazarus touched his temple, his finger finding a dab of blood no bigger than a drop of claret."
"Dayward" by ZZ Packer, in The New Yorker, June 14 & 21, 2010, page 109 Jul 12, 2010
bilby Pity this isn't clawder :-( Jul 21, 2008