Midden The kitchen midden. The dust-bin. The farmer's midden is the dunghill. The word is Scotch.
(Danish, mödding; Norwegian, mudder; Welsh, mwydo (to wet), our mud and mire.)
Better marry over
the midden than over the moor. Better seek a wife among your neighbours whom you know than among
strangers of whom you know nothing. The midden, in Scotland, is the domestic rubbish heap.
Ilka cock
craws loodest on its ain midden. In English, “Every cock crows loudest on his own dunghill.” A midden
is an ash-pit, a refuse-heap.
