kudo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːdəʊ/, /ˈkjuːdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -uːdəʊ

kudo (plural kudos)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) A compliment or praise.
   • 1929 February 18, "Harkness Lampooned", in Time,

     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, →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, →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.

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

kudo

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

• doku

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kudo (plural kudi)

1. (anatomy) elbow

• kudigar (“to make an elbow”)

kudo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くど

kudo

1. Nonstandard spelling of kuda.

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], Petrozavodsk: Periodika