ALL meanings of middlings
mid·dling
M m - adjective middlings medium, moderate, oraverage in size, quantity, or quality: The returns on such a large investment may be only middling. 1
- adjective middlings mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian: The restaurant's entrées are no better than middling. 1
- adjective middlings Older Use. in fairly good health. 1
- adverb middlings moderately; fairly. 1
- noun middlings middlings, any of various products or commodities of intermediate quality, grade, size, etc., as the coarser particles of ground wheat mingled with bran. 1
- noun middlings Often, middlings. Also called middling meat. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. salt pork or smoked side meat. 1
- noun middlings (cooking) Low grade or coarse flour; coarse wheat mixed with bran. 1
- noun plural middlings the poorer or coarser part of flour or other products 0
- noun plural middlings commodities of intermediate grade, quality, size, or price 0
- noun plural middlings the part of a pig between the ham and shoulder 0