adv. (American colloquial).—As it were. Also KINDER SORTER.

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  1848.  DURIVAGE, Stray Subjects, 80. ‘You’re short,KINDER?’ ‘Wal; you’ll find me long enough—prehaps.’

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  1848.  W. E. BURTON, Waggeries and Vagaries, p. 18. I’m not goin’ to say that I didn’t feel KINDER skeered.

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