adjective
- medium, moderate, oraverage in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling.
- mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant’s entrĂ©es are no better than middling.
- Older Use. in 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.
- Often middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat.
pl n
- the poorer or coarser part of flour or other products
- commodities of intermediate grade, quality, size, or price
- mainly US the part of a pig between the ham and shoulder
adjective
- mediocre in quality, size, etc; neither good nor bad, esp in health (often in the phrase fair to middling)
adverb
- informal moderatelymiddling well
adj.1540s, from Scottish mydlyn (mid-15c.), from middle + suffix -ing. Used to designate the second of three grades of goods. As an adverb by 1719. see fair to middling.