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kinda

adverbecontractioninterjectionnomcourant dans les dialogues

  • États-Unis//ˈkaɪndə//
  • //ˈkaɪnə//
  • //ˈkɪndə//

Kind of; somewhat.

adverbe

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    Kind of; somewhat.

    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 …

Étymologie

Written form of a reduction (apocope) or pronunciation spelling of kind of.

contraction

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    Variante de kindContraction of kind + of.

    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.

    What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?

interjection

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    Yes in some respects but no in other respects.

    "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."

    Ah, I see. Meely doesn't tease you. You're best friends, is that right? / Kinda.

nom

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    A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.

    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.

Étymologie

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

Formes

pluriel
kindsa, kindas
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

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