middling

mid·dling  (mdlng, -ln)

adj.

1. Of medium size, position, or quality.

2. Mediocre. See Synonyms at average.

n.

1. Chiefly Southern U.S.

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

b. 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).

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[Probably Middle English midlin : mid, mid; see mid¹ + -ling, having a quality; see -ling¹.]

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middling·ly adv.

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middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ]

adj

mediocre in quality, size, etc.; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling)

adv

Informal moderately middling well

[C15 (northern English and Scottish): from mid¹ + -ling²]

middlingly  adv

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	middling - any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce
Adj.	1.	middling - lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" mediocre, average, fair ordinary - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
Adv.	1.	middling - to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat

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middling

adjective

1. mediocre, all right, indifferent, so-so (informal), unremarkable, tolerable, run-of-the-mill, passable, serviceable, unexceptional, half-pie (N.Z. informal), O.K. or okay (informal) They enjoyed only middling success until 1963.

2. moderate, medium, average, fair, ordinary, modest, adequate, bog-standard (Brit. & Irish slang) a man of middling height

Translations

middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ]

A. ADJ → mediano (pej) → regular
"how are you?" - "middling" → -¿qué tal estás? -regular
see also fair ¹ A2

B. ADV middling good → medianamente bueno, regular

middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ] adj → moyen(ne)

middling

adj → mittelmäßig; (of size) → mittlere(r, s); how are you? — middling → wie geht es dir? — mittelprächtig (inf) → or einigermaßen; what was the weather like? — middling → wie war das Wetter? — durchwachsen or so lala (inf)

adv (inf: = fairly) middling rich → ziemlich reich

middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ] adj → così così, medio/a

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middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ] adj → così così, medio/a