midtale

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noun

The middle of a story

OriginEnglish tale ← Middle English mid ← Old English midd →
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Meanings

nounmidtale (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Englishtale
  12. Englishmidtale

From mid- + tale.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

dimetal
Cite this entry
APA

midtale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midtale

MLA

“midtale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midtale. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “midtale,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/midtale.

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