middling
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Is middling a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (colloquial, regional British) In fairly good health.Examples: "I am in a middling Way, between Healthy and Sick, hardly ever without a little Giddineſs or Deafneſs, and ſometimes both: So much for that."; "“And how’s that chest of yours?” demanded Mrs. Morel. / He smiled again, with his blue eyes rather sunny. / “Oh, it’s very middlin’,” he said."Britishcolloquialregional
adv (English)
1. (colloquial, regional British) Fairly, moderately, somewhat.Examples: "St. Jerom ſeated, a middling ſized upright plate, from J. Palma, dated 1596. I think this is one of the fineſt prints by this great maſter. The drawing is admirable, and the engraving is executed with the utmoſt freedom."; "Iwami, otherwise Sekisju, is two days journey long, going from ſouth to north, a middling good country, producing plenty of cannib, and affording ſome ſalt."Britishcolloquialregional
2. (colloquial, regional British) Not too badly, with modest success.Britishcolloquialregional
noun (English)
1. Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.Examples: "The war had been significantly financed by the poor and the middling, who purchased bonds that quickly devalued from wartime inflation; debt speculators had bought much of this debt at a fraction of the original cost."in-plural
Definition source: Wiktionary