Litter

Noun

 * 1)  A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
 * 2)  The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
 * 3)  Material used as bedding for animals.
 * 4)  Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
 * 5)  Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
 * 6)  Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

Synonyms

 * : palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet
 * : waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

 * litter bin
 * litter bug
 * litter frog

Verb

 * 1)  To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
 * 2) * By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
 * 3)  To give birth to, used of animals.

Derived terms

 * litterer

Adjectives for Litter
sable; terrible; intellectual; huge.

Adverbs for Litter
confusedly; untidily; sloppily; haphazardly; disheveledly; obtrusively.

Thesaurus
air mattress, arsy-varsiness, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, bed, bed down, bedding, bedstead, bier, bolster, brancard, break, bridle, brood, brush, bunk, cacolet, calve, camel litter, cast, clamjamfry, clutch, clutter, collateral, couch, curry, currycomb, cushion, dandy, debris, derange, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, dolly, doolie, doss, drench, drop, dust, farrago, farrow, fawn, feed, foal, fodder, fragments, fry, garbage, gentle, get, give birth, gocart, groom, gurney, handbarrow, handle, harness, hash, hatch, have, have a baby, have young, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hitch, hodgepodge, hysteron proteron, innerspring mattress, issue, jampan, jumble, jungle, junk, kelter, kip, kitten, labor, lamb, lie in, lumber, manage, mat, mattress, mess, mess up, milk, misarrange, mishmash, muddle, muss, muss up, nest, odds and ends, offal, offspring, pad, pallet, pillow, pup, raff, refuse, riffraff, rub down, rubbish, rubble, ruffle, rug, rummage, rumple, saddle, scatter, scramble, scrap, sedan, sedan chair, shoddy, sleeping bag, sofa, spat, spawn, springs, stretcher, strew, tame, tend, the hay, the sack, throw, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, tousle, train, trash, travail, truck, tumble, turmoil, underbed, underbedding, unholy mess, waste, water, welter, whelp, yean, yoke, young

Etymology
From litière, from lit, ‘bed’, from  lectus; confer Greek λέκτρον. Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, ...

Noun

 * Dutch: draagbed, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Sänfte, Trage , Bahre
 * Italian:
 * Latin:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, litieră
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: nosilnica


 * Chamicuro:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: samburi, got, ungi


 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: приплод, помёт,
 * Serbo-Croatian: leglo
 * Slovene:


 * Dutch: strooisel
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Russian: подстилка


 * Dutch:, zwerfafval, , zwerfvuil,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: rusl, drasl


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ごみ
 * Lithuanian: šiukšlės, sometimes pabiros
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: сор,


 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Russian: подстилка


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Arabic: بعثر
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 亂丟垃圾, 乱丢垃圾
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French: jeter des ordures
 * German: ferkeln, Abfall wegwerfen
 * Japanese: ごみを すてる
 * Russian: сорить,   насорить,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Romanian:

Anagrams

 * tilter