kudo

Back-formation from kudos, as if it were a plural with -s.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.dəʊ/, /ˈkjuː.dəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.doʊ/, /ˈkjuː.doʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːdəʊ
• Hyphenation: ku‧do

kudo (plural kudos)

1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) A compliment or praise.
   • 1929 February 18, Harkness Lampooned, Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 November 2007:

     Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph.D.

   • 2001, Terry T. Lankford et al., Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight Into Terrain‎^[2], →ISBN, page 49:

     At this point we need to give this pilot a kudo.

   • 2004, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction‎^[3], →ISBN, page 162:

     We still feel a kudo for one of us is a kudo for the group, as we have nurtured, edited, and prodded each other for much of our writing careers.

kudo (third-person singular simple present kudos, present participle kudoing, simple past and past participle kudoed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To give a compliment or praise to.
   • 1962, Box Office, volume 80, page 6:

     The magazines kudoed the spectacular African wild animal adventure film as being "an outstanding motion picture as voted by the editors."

   • 2001, Richard L. Hemenez, The United States Marine Corps in Books and the Performing Arts, page 450:

     This is more or less a stock service picture entry, kudoing the Coast Guard and the role it played in World War II beach operations.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkudoˣ/, [ˈkudo̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification^(key): ku‧do
• Hyphenation^(key): ku‧do

kudo

1. inflection of kutoa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• doku

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kudo (plural kudi)

1. (anatomy) elbow

• kudigar (“to make an elbow”)

kudo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くど

kudo

1. nonstandard spelling of kuda

Borrowed from Japanese 空道.

kudo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts) kudo

• deporte de combate

From Proto-Finnic *kutu. Cognates include Finnish kutu.

kudo

1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “икра”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika