midden

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Scrabble points
10
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12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈmɪdən/

Definition of midden

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A dung heap.
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noun

  1. A dung heap.
  2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
    “Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene. The Burmese must be the best-dressed people in the world.”
    “Strange rubbish, not the tins and paper and boxes and other containers you would expect in a town, but a finer kind of waste […] that made the middens look like grey-black mounds of sifted earth.”
  3. An accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
  4. A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
  5. An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.

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Etymology

From Middle English midding, myddyng, from Old Danish mykdyngja, (a compound of Old Norse myk, myki (“muck, manure”) and dyngja (“dung, dungpile”)), whence also Danish møgdynge and mødding, Norwegian mødding, dialectal Swedish mödding.

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