kinda

English

Etymology 1

Written form of a reduction of "kind of"

Pronunciation

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Adverb

kinda (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) kind of

   I kinda hafta do this right now.

   That's kinda funny.

   • 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 DPT CSCS, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37,

     The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite...

Noun

kinda (plural kindsa)

1. (colloquial) kind of.
   • 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?

Etymology 2

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

Wikipedia

Noun

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, Issues 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.

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Romani

Noun

kinda f.

1. kitchen