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Word entry · 6 letters

midden

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"Refuse heap"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɪdən/Part of speech nounSorted ddeimnStarts with MEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a heap of dung or refuse

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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