kinda

Etymology 1

Written form of a reduction of kind of.

adv

1. (colloquial) 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. October 12, 1912, Courtney Ryley Cooper, “Somewhere Safe to Sea”, in Collier's, volume 50, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 18
   In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds. 2006, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different As Me, page 13
   The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite... 2010, Eric Anthony Galvez DPT CSCS, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37

intj

1. 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. 2000, Ken Wells, Meely LaBauve, New York: Random House, page 212

Etymology 2

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

noun

1. 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. 2006, The National Geographic Magazine, volume 212, numbers 4-6, page 18