Definitions
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- adverb idiomatic, colloquial
Slightly ;somewhat ;sort of .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb to some (great or small) extent
Etymologies
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From a reanalysis "kind of" in a phrase such as "a kind of merry dance" from noun ("kind") and preposition ("of") from the prepositional phrase "of merry dance" to adverb modifying "merry".
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