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Etymology
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From a reanalysis of kind of in a phrase such as a kind of merry dance from “a kind + of + merry dance” (a type among merry dances) to “a + kind-of merry + dance” (a somewhat merry dance).
Pronunciation
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kind of (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Slightly; somewhat; sort of.
- I'm getting kind of tired. Could we finish tomorrow?
- That's the right answer, kind of.
2022, A. M. Arthur, His Fresh Start Cowboy:He kind of hated the idea of Hugo having been with someone else, even though that was superhypocritical, considering Brand's own previous arrangements with Ramie and Jackson.
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Translations
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somewhat
- Bulgarian: малко (bg) (malko), един вид (edin vid)
- Catalan: una mica (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 相當/相当 (zh) (xiāngdāng)
- Dutch: ietwat (nl)
- Finnish: vähän (fi), jokseenkin (fi), tavallaan (fi)
- French: plus ou moins (fr), quelque peu (fr), à peu près (fr), en quelque sorte (fr), manière (fr) (Louisiana)
- Galician: mais ou menos, daquela maneira
- German: etwas (de), irgendwie (de)
- Greek: κάπως (el) (kápos), περίπου (el) (perípou)
- Hungarian: némileg (hu)
- Irish: cineál
- Italian: piuttosto (it), abbastanza (it)
- Lithuanian: panašiai
- Polish: jakiś (pl)
- Portuguese: meio (pt)
- Russian: своего́ ро́да (svojevó róda), ти́па (ru) (típa), вро́де (ru) (vróde)
- Scottish Gaelic: nàdar de
- Serbo-Croatian: nekako (sh), pomalo (sh), na neki način
- Spanish: algo (es), algo así, algo así como, más o menos (es)
- Swedish: ganska (sv)
- Ukrainian: щось на зразок (ščosʹ na zrazok)
- Welsh: ychydig (cy), braidd, yn rhyw fath
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