—used for "kind of" in informal speech and in representations of such speech
I feel kinda[=somewhat] tired.She's spontaneous, a bundle of fun and kinda wild. Bell HooksI just kinda[=more or less] wrote it. Dana Goodyear… one of those things that just kinda fell from the sky. Tobit RaphaelYou know the kinda[=type of] trouble kids can get into around here. John Edgar Wideman