kudo

See also: kūdõ and Kūdõ

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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Noun

kudo (plural kudos)

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) A compliment or praise.
   • 1929 February 18, "Harkness Lampooned"^[1], 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^[2], ISBN 0071374116, 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 0071444947, 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.

Translations

compliment or praise

• Finnish: kehu (fi)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkudoˣ/
• Hyphenation: ku‧do

Verb

kudo

1. Indicative present connegative form of kutoa.
2. Second person singular imperative present form of kutoa.
3. Second person singular imperative present connegative form of kutoa.

Anagrams

• doku

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Ido

Noun

kudo (plural kudi)

1. (anatomy) elbow

Derived terms

• kudigar (“to make an elbow”)

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Japanese

Romanization

kudo

1. Rōmaji transcription of くど

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Veps

Etymology

Akin to Finnish kutu.

Noun

kudo

1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

Inflection

Inflection of kudo
nominative sing.	kudo
genitive sing.	kudon
partitive sing.	kudod
partitive plur.	—
	singular	plural
nominative	kudo	—
accusative	kudon	—
genitive	kudon	—
partitive	kudod	—
essive-instructive	kudon	—
translative	kudoks	—
inessive	kudos	—
elative	kudospäi	—
illative	?	—
adessive	kudol	—
ablative	kudolpäi	—
allative	kudole	—
abessive	kudota	—
comitative	kudonke	—
prolative	kudodme	—
approximative I	kudonno	—
approximative II	kudonnoks	—
egressive	kudonnopäi	—
terminative I	?	—
terminative II	kudolesai	—
terminative III	kudossai	—
additive I	?	—
additive II	kudolepäi	—

References

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