MIDDLING
ADJECTIVES
► FEAT fairly large; middling, tolerable in quantity; of considerable size → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MEETERLY moderate, in a fair state, middling → 1684 Eng. dial.
► MIDDLEMISH moderate, middling; not liberal → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIDDLE-WAY middling, pretty well → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIDGING middling, esp. used in greetings → 1954 Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
► MEEVERLY ► MEVERLY moderately, tolerably, middling; fairly well in health; easily, gently → 1790 Eng. dial.
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