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What (who) is middling - definition
AMERICAN MUSICIAN
Middling Age
middling
If you describe a quality such as the size of something as middling, you mean that it is average.
The Beatles enjoyed only middling success until 1963.
...a man of middling height.
= average
ADJ: usu ADJ n
middling
a.
Ordinary, average, moderate, passable, tolerable, mediocre, medium.
middling
¦ adjective moderate or average in size, amount, quality, or rank.
¦ noun (middlings) bulk goods of medium grade, especially flour of medium fineness.
¦ adverb informal fairly or moderately: middling rich.
Derivatives
middlingly adverb
Origin
ME (orig. Scots): prob. from mid- + the adverbial suffix -ling.
Wikipedia
Tim Kasher
Timothy J. Kasher (born August 19, 1974) is an American musician from Omaha, Nebraska, and is the frontman of indie rock groups Cursive and the Good Life, both of which are on the Omaha-based record label Saddle Creek Records.
Examples of use of middling
1. Otherwise it tends to be a middling sort of place.
2. Children comforted by their mothers recorded middling scores.
3. Total turnover was middling to average at NIS 1.' billion.
4. Strauss and Matthew Prior played themselves in and started middling the ball to the boundary.
5. The basic corporate tax rate is a middling 28 per cent.