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middling
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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).

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

middling·ly adv.

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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.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"
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"

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. ADJmediano (pej) → regular
"how are you?" - "middling"-¿qué tal estás? -regular
see also fair 1 A2
B. ADV middling goodmedianamente bueno, regular
middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ] adjmoyen(ne)
middling
adjmittelmäßig; (of size)mittlere(r, s); how are you? — middlingwie geht es dir? — mittelprächtig (inf)or einigermaßen; what was the weather like? — middlingwie war das Wetter? — durchwachsen or so lala (inf)
adv (inf: = fairly) middling richziemlich reich
middling [ˈmɪdlɪŋ] adjcosì così, medio/a


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I realise that you are on occasion a middlingly fine actress, that you have an Oscar (albeit for wearing a false hooter), and that you are not without a brain, but still I have to ask: what have you done for me lately?
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