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plural middens
A dungheap. examples
A refuse heap usually near a dwelling. quotations examples
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.
1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth
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.
1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
(archaeology) A prehistoric pile of bones and shells.
(zoology) A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
(zoology) An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.