ado en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /əˈdjuː/ (hypercorrect)
- /əˈduː/
Etymology
From Northern Middle English at do (“to do”), infinitive of do, don (“to do”), see do. Influenced by an Old Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the preposition at, att (compare Danish at gå (“to go”)). More at at, do.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:Antonio:In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a wantwit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.
c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Relateds
Synonyms
fuss · shindy · rumpus · shemozzle · unrest · upstir · turmoil · hoo-hah · kerfuffle · to-do · commotion · ruckus · disturbance · tomfoolery · bangarang · hurly-burly · foofaraw · disruption · fracas · bunfight · merry hell · trouble · splatterdash · riot · palaver · hobbleshaw · uproar · bustle · clamour · mayhem · flutter · tumult · outcry · hullabaloo · argy-bargy · rowdydow · stooshie · bobbery · three-ring circus · hubbub · hoo-ha · pandemonium · brouhaha · quarrel · furor · ferment · pother · clatter · ado · flap · chaos · bust-up · stir
Translations (27)
fr histoire (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · tr patırtı (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · tr telaş (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fr foin (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · hu hűhó (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · sk zdržiavanie (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · tr gürültü (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fr manières (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · mi utiuti (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fr bruit (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · sk hurhaj (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · pdt Kracheel (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · tr yaygara (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fi mekkala (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fi älämölö (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · pt barulho (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · pdt Puhu (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · cs povyk (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · de Getue (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · nl gedoe (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fi meteli (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fr cérémonies (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · pt confusão (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · ru затруднение (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · cs rotyka (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · cs zdržování (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles) · fi lätinä (doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles)