A dialectal or archaic term for a cluttered mess, disorder, or confused state of things.
Possibly related to clutter or Middle English words for dirt and disorder. This appears to be a regional British dialectal word with uncertain precise etymology.
Regional dialect words like 'cludder' are linguistic fossils—they preserve old pronunciations and meanings that disappeared from standard English but survived in isolated communities, giving us windows into how English sounded centuries ago.
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