Other forms: welters
A welter is a confused and disordered mass of things. A welter of detail, a welter of emotions, lost in the welter.
It nearly always appears as a welter of, and it means too much of something arriving at once rather than merely a lot. As a verb it means to roll or wallow, and welterweight is a boxing division named from an unrelated old slang word.
1nounwelterA confused and disordered mass of things.
“The report was lost in a welter of emails and meeting notes.”
welter is a confusion.
Also accepted in games: jumble
Middle English welteren meant to roll or wallow, from a Germanic root that also gave German waelzen.
Middle English
welteren
English, today
welter
From Middle English welteren, equivalent to welt + er. Cognates include German Low German weltern (“to wallow; roll”), Old Norse velta (Danish vælte), German wälzen, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽. Akin to wallow and Latin volvō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA