midden

Noun

midden (plural middens)

1. A dung heap.
2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
   • 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
3. An accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
4. A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
5. An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.