26 August 2018

midden

[mid-n]

noun

1. a dunghill or refuse heap.
2. kitchen midden.

Origin of midden

Middle English, Old Danish
1300-1350; Middle English midding < Old Danish mykdyngja, equivalent to myk manure + dyngja pile ( Danish mødding)

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Historical Examples

They happened to fall soft, on a midden, and got away unhurt.
From a Terrace in Prague
Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

The day you do weel there will be seven munes in the lift and ane on the midden.
The Proverbs of Scotland
Alexander Hislop

One corner of this midden is bricked off to form a drainage pit.
The Red Watch
J. A. Currie

Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden.
Mary Anerley
R. D. Blackmore

And Nod said softly: “Float but a span nearer to me, midden —a span and just a half a span.”
The Three Mulla-mulgars
Walter De La Mare

They stood about a ruin of felled trees, with a midden and its butterflies in the midst.
The Sea and the Jungle
H. M. Tomlinson

If you boys have no objection, I think I’ll spend the afternoon at my midden.
The Wailing Octopus
Harold Leland Goodwin

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My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

– John Shelby Spong

On this day

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