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middling

[ mid-ling ]

adjective

  1. medium, moderate, or average in size, quantity, or quality:

    The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.

  2. The restaurant's entr茅es are no better than middling.

  3. Older Use. in fairly good health.


adverb

  1. moderately; fairly.

noun

  1. middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran.
  2. Often middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.

middling

/ 藞尘瑟诲濒瑟艐 /

adjective

  1. mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. informal.
    moderately

    middling well

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞尘颈诲诲濒颈苍驳濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘颈诲顎僤濒颈苍驳路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of middling1

First recorded in 1375鈥1425; late Middle English (north) medlinge (present participle) 鈥渃oming between, middle鈥; mid 1, -ling 2
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of middling1

C15 (northern English and Scottish): from mid 1+ -ling
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Idioms and Phrases

see fair to middling .
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Example Sentences

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He was bad against the Thunder, middling against the Spurs and shook against the Suns and Nuggets.

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More likely this middling thriller just needs a decorative garnish.

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He was forced into action briefly in one game and provided the team an insurance policy after Stick鈥檚 middling preseason.

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The main crime the duchess commits in 鈥淲ith Love, Meghan鈥 is creating a middling show that is, at worst, inoffensive.

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The 鈥70s was the decade of the prime-time TV special, usually built around a middling star and featuring talent from the airing network.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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