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middling
[ mid-ling ]
adjective
- medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality:
The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
- Older Use. in fairly good health.
adverb
- moderately; fairly.
noun
- middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
- Often middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.
middling
/ ˈmɪdlɪŋ /
adjective
- mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling )
adverb
- informal.moderately
middling well
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Derived Forms
- ˈmiddlingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- middling·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of middling1
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
He was living under the alias Alonso Rivera Muñoz as a middling real estate developer and art collector in Querétaro.
After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news.
What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup?
Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the Average Joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines.
This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle.
I presume there will be more middling and half middling yields within twenty miles of Paris than in all Belgium.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.
The head is conical, and of a middling size, with respect to the bulk of the body.
Little did he think that that middling oat-bearing land was being minded and brooded upon.
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