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View synonyms for midden
midden
[ mid-n ]
midden
/ ˈmɪdən /
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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.
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Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden,' piped the child.
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Possibly the party kept too far inland to see the shell midden sites along the Bay shore.
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"Saft beddin's gude for sair banes," quo' Howie when he streekit himsel on the midden-head.
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Whether they be remnants of an elevated sea-beach, or of some Indian ‘kitchen-midden,’ I dare not decide.
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