midtale en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- English tale English midtale From mid- + tale.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The middle of a story
"Where's the picture of my mother-in-law?" he barks in midtale, and a bartender hustles off to look for it.
1988 January 22, Jack Hayes, “Pizza Man”, in Chicago Reader: