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mid⋅dling

  [mid-ling]
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–adjective
1. medium, moderate, oraverage in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
2. mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
3. Older Use. in fairly good health.
–adverb
4. moderately; fairly.
–noun
5. middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
6. Often, middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME (north). See mid 1 , -ling 2

Related forms:
mid⋅dling⋅ly, adverb
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mid·dling   (mĭd'lĭng, -lĭn)   
adj.  

  1. Of medium size, position, or quality.

  2. Mediocre. See Synonyms at average.

n.  

  1. Chiefly Southern U.S.

    1. Pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig. Often used in the plural.

    2. Salt pork. Also called middling meat.

  2. middlings Any of various products, such as partially refined petroleum or ore, that are intermediate in quality, size, price, or grade.

  3. middlings (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran.

adv.   Informal
Fairly; moderately: "a middling nice cake" (Hatfield MA Valley Advocate).

[Probably Middle English midlin : mid, mid; see mid1 + -ling, having a quality; see -ling1.]
mid'dling·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

middling  (adj.)
1456, from Scottish mydlyn, from M.E. middle + suffix -ing. Used to designate the second of three grades of goods.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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