miskin
A rubbish heap or dustbin — old Black Country word for the midden.
Definitions
A rubbish heap, dung heap, or by extension a dustbin. Old Black Country and Birmingham word from Old English for the household muck-pile out the back. Largely retired since the 1960s but still surfaces in older speech and the phrase 'marry the miskin fer the muck' — marrying for money.
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