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

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

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• Rhymes:-uːdəʊ
• Hyphenation:ku‧do

kudo (pluralkudos)

1. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) Acompliment orpraise.
   • 1929 February 18, Harkness Lampooned,Time‎^[1], archived fromthe original on28 November 2007:

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

   • 2001, Terry T. Lankfordet al.,Controlling Pilot Error: Controlled Flight Into Terrain‎^[2],→ISBN, page49:

     At this point we need to give this pilot akudo.

   • 2004, Suzanne Paola,Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction‎^[3],→ISBN, page162:

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

kudo (third-person singular simple presentkudos,present participlekudoing,simple past and past participlekudoed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To give acompliment orpraise to.
   • 1962,Box Office, volume80, page 6:

     The magazineskudoed 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, page450:

     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 ofkutoa:
   1. presentactiveindicativeconnegative
   2. second-personsingularpresentimperative
   3. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperativeconnegative

• doku

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kudo (pluralkudi)

1. (anatomy)elbow

• kudigar(“to make an elbow”)

kudo

1. Rōmaji transcription ofくど

kudo

1. nonstandard spelling ofkuda

SpanishWikipedia has an article on:

Daido-Juku Kudo

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Borrowed fromJapanese空道.

kudo m (uncountable)

1. (martial arts)kudo

• deporte de combate

FromProto-Finnic*kutu. Cognates includeFinnishkutu.

kudo

1. spawn(of fish, amphibians)

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

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