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Middling vs Riddling - What's the difference?

middling | riddling |

As an adjective middling

is of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre.

As a verb riddling is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun riddling is

material removed by riddling, or sieving.

middling

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre
    • The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling .
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • In fairly good health.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"And how's that chest of yours?" demanded Mrs. Morel.
  • *:He smiled again, with his blue eyes rather sunny.
  • *:"Oh, it's very middlin' ," he said.

    • Synonyms

    * average, medium, unexceptional

    Derived terms

    * fair to middling

    External links

    * Origin of fair to middling

    riddling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Material removed by riddling, or sieving.
  • * 1832 , The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture (volume 3, page 989)
    • The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.