midden
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n Origin:
1300–50; Middle English midding < Old Danish mykdyngja, equivalent to myk manure + dyngja pile (Danish mødding)
1300–50; Middle English midding < Old Danish mykdyngja, equivalent to myk manure + dyngja pile (Danish mødding)
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. archaic, dialect or a dunghill or pile of refuse |
| b. dialect a dustbin | |
| c. dialect (Northern English) an earth closet | |
| 2. | See kitchen midden |
| [C14: from Scandinavian; compare Danish mödding from mög | |
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Midden
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Word Origin & History
midden
"dung hill," mid-14c., of Scandinavian origin; cf. Dan. mødding, from møg "muck" + dynge "heap, dung." Modern archaeological sense of "kitchen midden" is from Danish excavations.
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Example sentences
The site contains burial mounds, pottery and an oyster shell midden.
One staff member sat atop what archaeologists call-or will call in a thousand years-a midden pile.
Their midden piles provide a source of conifer seeds for foresters.
One may find the remnants of a meal, a pile of cleaned mussels called a midden, along the bank of a stream.
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