Other forms: middens
A midden is a heap of household rubbish and dung. On the midden, an old midden, dig the midden.
Archaeologists love them, since a midden holds bones, shells and broken pots that say more about daily life than any grave. Shell middens on coastlines can be thousands of years old and metres deep.
1nounmiddenA heap of household rubbish and dung.
“Archaeologists dug through the midden and found broken pots and animal bones.”
midden is a heap.
Middle English midding comes from Old Norse words meaning muck and heap.
Old Norse
myk
gmq-oda
mykdyngja
Middle English
midding
English, today
midden
Built from
From Middle English midding, myddyng, from gmq-oda 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA