Dictionary entry

So-so

Webster's Dictionary 1913

So″–so′ (?), a. [So + so.] Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent.

In some Irish houses, where things are so-so,

One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. Goldsmith.

He certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. Prof. Wilson.