middlin

Now, when country folks get out of salt pork, they are what I call middlin 'poor. "

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866

We've heard better, an 'worse, an' middlin '-- there's ben such contradictory reports. "

The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

We didn 'have nothin to eat' cept hard tack an 'middlin' meat.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Various

With the smoke house full o 'middlin', and the coal house full o 'coal!

The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy

He was more than ever of the opinion that the "middlin '" term should be cut out of her description.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The east corridor '-- they're from farther away an' middlin 'well-to-do --' all has boxes comin 'to 'em from off.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

Colonel Pawlin's wife has a cold snack ready, it bein 'middlin' warm.

Rimrock Trail 1906

It wuz to Miss Ebenezer Plank'ses, who took in a few boarders, bein 'middlin' well off, and havin 'a very nice house to start with, but wanted to add a little to her income, so she took in a few and done well by 'em, so our pasture said, and so we found out.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

Yeah, I don't think he was "all that bad", hence my choice of the word "middlin '".

McCovey Chronicles 2009

And Kim is only popular because she made a sex tape with a failry 'middlin' R&B singer, who just happened to become famous by being Brandy's brother.

Jarrett-Carter.com 2009