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  • 81collect —    Ohi, ho ākoakoa, ho āhu, hō ili, hō ili ili, hāpuku, hō ulu ulu; ohi loa a (revenue).   Also: ākuli, ho āuna, i i, lapulapu, pūku i, laua e, ho opūlehulehu.    ♦ To collect taxes, ohi auhau.    ♦ To collect untidily, mu umōkākī …

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  • 82heap —   Pu u, ahu, kūāhua, āhua, kuapapa, anu a, nu a, lu a, ho onu a.   Also: āluka, pa i, laupa i, kūpa i, paila, huku, kilohana, mahena.    ♦ Heap of food, pu u ai, kio honua.    ♦ Heap of stones, pu u pōhaku, kaulana a ā.    ♦ Heap of pebbles, pu u …

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  • 83rop(e)y —  Unsatisfactory. Untidily organised. Decrepit. Inefficient. Badly arranged …

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  • 84clutter — ► NOUN 1) things lying about untidily. 2) an untidy state. ► VERB ▪ cover or fill with clutter. ORIGIN variant of dialect clotter to clot , influenced by CLUSTER(Cf. ↑cluster) and CLATTER(Cf. ↑ …

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  • 85rummage — ► VERB ▪ search unsystematically and untidily for something. ► NOUN ▪ an act of rummaging. ORIGIN originally referring to the arranging of items in the hold of a ship: from Old French arrumer stow in a hold …

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  • 86untidiness — untidy ► ADJECTIVE (untidier, untidiest) 1) not arranged tidily. 2) not inclined to be neat. DERIVATIVES untidily adverb untidiness noun …

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  • 87untidy — ► ADJECTIVE (untidier, untidiest) 1) not arranged tidily. 2) not inclined to be neat. DERIVATIVES untidily adverb untidiness noun …

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  • 88litter — [13] The word litter has come a long way semantically since it was born, from ‘bed’ to ‘rubbish scattered untidily’. It goes back ultimately to Latin lectus ‘bed’, a distant relative of English lie and source of French lit ‘bed’ (which forms the… …

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  • 89untidy — [untī′dē] adj. untidier, untidiest [ME untydi] not tidy; not neat or in good order; slovenly; messy untidily adv. untidiness n …

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  • 90clutter — n. & v. n. 1 a crowded and untidy collection of things. 2 an untidy state. v.tr. (often foll. by up, with) crowd untidily, fill with clutter. Etymology: partly var. of clotter coagulate, partly assoc. with CLUSTER, CLATTER …

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