middle-roadern.
/ˌmɪdlˈrəʊdə/, U.S. /ˌmɪd(ə)lˈroʊdər/ = middle-of-the-roader n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] > middle course > follower of
commoderator1607
middleman1765
middle-of-the-roader1896
in-betweener1924
middle-roader1959
1959 Midwest Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 3 354 The middle-roaders and conservatives had not sorted them out very well.
1983 India Today 30 June 11/1 Bunching together the ‘middle-roaders’.
1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Mar. 45/1 Couchman, in the thick of 200 hippies and about 50 middle-roaders, was more diplomatic later about the body odours.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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