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, 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.

Translations

compliment or praise

• Finnish: kehu (fi)
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Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

kudo

1. (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of kutoa
2. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of kutoa
3. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of kutoa

Anagrams

• doku

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Ido

Etymology

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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

Related to Finnish kutu.

Noun

kudo

1. spawn (of fish, amphibians)

References

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