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View synonyms for midden

midden

[ mid-n ]

noun

  1. a dunghill or refuse heap.


midden

/ ˈmɪdən /

noun

    1. a dunghill or pile of refuse
    2. a dustbin
    3. an earth closet


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Word History and Origins

Origin of midden1

1300–50; Middle English midding < Old Danish mykdyngja, equivalent to myk manure + dyngja pile ( Danish mødding )

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Word History and Origins

Origin of midden1

C14: from Scandinavian; compare Danish mödding from mög muck + dynge pile

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Example Sentences

He'll shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at the midden, e'en though he may miss his mark.

Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.

Possibly the party kept too far inland to see the shell midden sites along the Bay shore.

"Saft beddin's gude for sair banes," quo' Howie when he streekit himsel on the midden-head.

Whether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, or of some Indian ‘kitchen-midden,’ I dare not decide.

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