How to pronounce “litter”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals. [1325]
• (countable, obsolete) A bed, especially a pile of straw with blankets &c. used as a bed.
• (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs. [1330s]
• (countable, obsolete) An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time. [1440]
• (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of straw, grass, &c. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch. [1453]
• (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects. [1486]
• (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
• (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
• (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
• (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest. [1905]
• (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals. [1959]
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
• (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
• (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
• (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
• (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
• (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
• (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
• [Adjective]
• comparative form of lit: more lit

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Similar Sounds

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