fair to middlin'



fair to middlin'

Rur. mediocre; not bad but not good. (Middling means 'of average quality.') Tom: How are you feeling today? Bill: Fair to middlin'. My sewing is excellent, but my cooking is only fair to middlin'.
See also: fair

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
BurtonBURT-ənEnglish
DillonDIL-ənEnglish
Brijesha-Hinduism
Avrum-Yiddish
Venkata-Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam
Ainslee['ænsli]