kinda
/ˈkaɪndə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.59 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
Example Sentences
- "I kinda hafta do this right now."
- "That’s kinda funny."
- "But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft."
- "… 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 …"
- "In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds."
- "The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite …"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkaɪndə/