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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.
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian.
The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling.
Older Use.Ìýin 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.
Also called middling meat.ÌýChiefly Midland and Southern U.S.ÌýOften middlings salt pork or smoked side meat.
middling
/ ˈ³¾Éª»å±ôɪŋ /
adjective
mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling )
adverb
informalÌýmoderately
middling well
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- middlingly adverb
- ˈ³¾¾±»å»å±ô¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of middling1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
“This thing†is a franchise that hasn’t posted a winning record since 2018 and whose all-time leading passer is the middling Jay Cutler.
The turbulent tenure of his predecessor, Jason Gill, had been marred by unrest in the clubhouse and middling results on the field.
Clearly, tofu can be so much more than just a middling protein replacement.
Marvel’s jokey, moody and middling “Thunderbolts*†returns the blockbuster franchise to the geeks.
However, a source told BBC Sport that in those early years, George was a 'middling' player in his age group until around the age of 10.
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