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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Ado \A*do"\ ([.a]*d[=oo]"), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do,
northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.]
1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. "What is here
ado?" --J. Newton.
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2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss;
bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
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With much ado, he partly kept awake. --Dryden.
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Let's follow to see the end of this ado. --Shak.
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WordNet Ado
n : a rapid bustling commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry,
fuss, stir]

Moby Dictionary
agitation , annoyance , anxiety , besetment , bother , botheration ,
brawl , broil , brouhaha , burst , bustle , can of worms , commotion ,
confusion , disadvantage , disturbance , donnybrook , donnybrook fair ,
dustup , ebullience , ebullition , eddy , effervescence , effort ,
embroilment , evil , exertion , feery-fary , ferment , fermentation ,
fidgetiness , fit , flap , flurry , fluster , flutter , flutteriness ,
foofaraw , fracas , free-for-all , fume , furore , fuss , fussiness ,
great ado , hassle , headache , helter-skelter , hubbub , hullabaloo ,
hurly-burly , hurry , hurry-scurry , inconvenience , maelstrom , matter ,
melee , pains , peck of troubles , pell-mell , perturbation , pother ,
problem , racket , rampage , restlessness , riot , rough-and-tumble ,
roughhouse , row , ruckus , ruction , ruffle , rumpus , scramble ,
sea of troubles , shindy , spasm , spurt , stew , stir , sweat , swirl ,
swirling , to-do , trouble , tumult , turbulence , turmoil , unquiet ,
uproar , vortex , whirl , whirlpool , whirlwind , worry , yeastiness

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