ado

nounattested in dialogue

//əˈduː//
//əˈdjuː//

Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.

noun

1
Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.
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.
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.”

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.

admit · To allow to enter; to grant entrance (to), whether into a…admitted · having received admittance admitting · An act of admission; an allowing to enter.

ado · Trouble; troublesome business; fuss, commotion.

adolescent · Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage…Adolf · A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of…adopt · To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.