"middish" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2017 April 13, Lloyd Grove, “Jane Pauley: I Was Sexually Harassed at NBC”, in The Daily Beast:",
          "text": "“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.",
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          "ref": "2019, Gregory McNamee, “Of Rock 'n' Roll and Corn Laws: A Few Words on Charles Bowden”, in Bill Broyles, Bruce J. Dinges, editors, America's Most Alarming Writer: Essays on the Life and Work of Charles Bowden, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "Chuck Bowden once brought me a beguiling, befuddling manuscript. It was thick, knotty, printed in one of those horrific fonts that the early generations of Mac computers offered back in the middish '80s.",
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        "Around the middle part."
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        "(informal, chiefly used as a prefix) Around the middle part."
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          "ref": "2000, Andrew L. Sihler, Language History: An introduction, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 196–197:",
          "text": "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, or more accurately, included such phones prominently in its allophonic range.",
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        "Somewhat or approximately mid; somewhere between the high and the low."
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        "(linguistics, of a vowel) Somewhat or approximately mid; somewhere between the high and the low."
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        "(informal, chiefly used as a prefix) Around the middle part."
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