See Also: midden(dictionary)
midden(dictionary)
midden crow(medicine)

midden (iou)



midden noun. ME.

A dunghill, a manure-heap; a refuse-heap. ME.
fig.: Expression! My own enthusiasm for the arts, then, grew up in the fertilising midden of unselfconsciousness.
Archaeology. A prehistoric refuse-heap of shells and bones and often also discarded artefacts; spec. = KITCHEN midden. M19.
A receptacle for refuse, a dustbin; the place where dustbins are kept. Scot. colloq. L19.
Comb.: midden cock = DUNGHILL cock; midden fowl = DUNGHILL fowl; middenstead arch. & dial. the place where a midden or dunghill is formed.