middish

Adjective

middish (not comparable)

1. (informal) Around the middle part.
   • I dropped out of high school to smoke cones and play bass guitar, which was pretty great for a decade or so. I got pretty excellent at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1, 2, and 3. Then in my middish-20s I very accidentally fell into a university preparation program at the University of Newcastle.2015 November 2, Stephen Owen, “In defence of the annoying mature-age student”, in The Guardian
   • “I can tell you one story—of a kind of middish-level executive at NBC who made an advance that was inappropriate. And I just felt so sorry for him,” Pauley confided with a sheepish smile, without identifying the miscreant.2017 April 13, Lloyd Grove, “Jane Pauley: I Was Sexually Harassed at NBC”, in The Daily Beast
2. Somewhat or approximately mid; somewhere between the high and the low.
   • The value of the Latin letter O was for a virtual certainty a mid, back, rounded vowel. If therefore this letter is used to render a vowel in a previously unwritten (ancient) language, […] it is to be inferred that the phoneme in question was probably some kind of middish, backish, rounded vowel...2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197