In this Adventure in Etymology, we find connections between clutter, clods and klutzes.

My cluttered kitchen part way through its current renovation

Clutter [ˈklʌtə(ɹ) / ˈklʌtɚ] is:

• A confused disordered jumble of things
• Background echoes, from clouds etc., on a radar or sonar screen.
• Clatter; confused noise. (obsolete)

It comes from Middle English cloteren (to form clots, coagulate, heap on), from clot (clo