Meanings
singular sorta
- colloquialcontractionSorts of.
"Oh. Togs. lt just means.. .special sortsa clothes. Toads? Gad, what a dodo l picked to fall in love with me."
1984, DeKalb College, DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volume 17, page 382 more examples
Sends a letter to the Globe and Mail and starts claiming that his friend Mackay says that there's all sortsa cabinet ministers ringing up all sortsa judges in Canada.
1977, Fred C Dobbs, The Golden Age of B.S., page 93Hampton delves into all sortsa cultural rootage — from country blues to smarmy Broadway show-tunage, combining them in a friendly, swinging way. This is the sorta record that should appeal to anybody who gave up on Zappa after Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
1988 June, “Underground”, in Spin, page 32
Origin
Written form of a reduction of sorts of.
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