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kindly adverb Pronunciation of kind of. [cf EDD kindly adverb 9 "rather, somewhat”; DARE labels this pronunciation "chiefly South, South Midland, especially southern Appalachians" in the U.S.]

1910 Weeks Barbourville Word List 456 = kind of. Very common. “He was kindly angry at me.” 1931 Combs Lg Sthn High 1306 Kindly crazy-like; he ain’t nothin’ above his eyes. 1939 Hall ColI (in describing how the speaker’s brother eluded conscription by the Confederate Army) He kindly hid and got into some bushes. 1972 AOHP/ALC-342 They kindly got that squished down and run that wire fence. 1974 Roberts Sang Branch 7 We was all kindy skittish about strangers that way. 1998 Dante OHP-25 I tell you, it was kindly strange.