kinda

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English

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Etymology 1

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Written form of a reduction or pronunciation spelling of kind of.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkaɪndə/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (also) IPA(key): /ˈkaɪnə/
  • Rhymes: -aɪnə

Adverb

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kinda (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Kind of; somewhat.
    Synonym: sorta
    I kinda hafta do this right now.
    That’s kinda funny.
    • 1912 October 12, Courtney Ryley Cooper, “Somewhere Safe to Sea”, in Collier’s, volume 50, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 18:
      But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft.
    • 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:
      … He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying[sic] right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …
    • 2006, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different as Me, page 13:
      In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds.
    • 2010, Eric Anthony Galvez, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37:
      The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite …

Contraction

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kinda (plural kindsa)

  1. (colloquial) Contraction of kind of.
    • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:
      Carmiesha had never once busted him in a lie, and she never had no kinda drama with him and no other chick. She damn sure couldn't say that for Dre.
    • 2008, Jacob Curtis, The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance, page 68:
      What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?
Derived terms
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Interjection

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kinda

  1. Yes in some respects but no in other respects.
    "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."
    • 2000, Ken Wells, Meely LaBauve, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 212:
      Ah, I see. Meely doesn't tease you. You're best friends, is that right? / Kinda.

Etymology 2

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After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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kinda (plural kindas)

  1. A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
    • 2006, The National Geographic Magazine, volume 212, numbers 4-6, page 18:
      In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park.

Anagrams

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Old Norse

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Noun

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kinda

  1. genitive plural of kind

Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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kinda (ma class, plural makinda)

  1. chick (young bird)

Vlax Romani

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Noun

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kinda f

  1. (Lovara) kitchen

References

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  • kinda” in Lovara Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.