Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adv
Neither very well nor very poorly.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryNeither good nor bad; tolerable, passable, indifferent.
From Middle English so so, from Old English swā swā, equivalent to so + so. Compare Dutch zozo (“so-so”), German soso (“so-so”), Norwegian så som så (“so-so”).
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