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
DurgaDOOR-ga (Hinduism)Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil
NoelNOL, no-ELEnglish
JosephJO-səf (English), zho-ZEF (French), YO-zef (German)English, French, German, Biblical
AamuAH:-mooFinnish
Ekenedilichukwu-Western African, Igbo
Makvala-Georgian