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ado

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Scrabble points
4
Words With Friends
4
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/əˈduː/

Definition of ado

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.
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name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of ActiveX Data Objects.

noun

  1. (uncountable)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.””

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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.

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