Definition of "kinda"

But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft.

1912 October 12, 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

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.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World/Ballantine Books, page 128

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

2008, Jacob Curtis, The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance, page 68

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

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