ado n : a rapid bustling commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, fuss, stir]

English

Etymology

Old English at do, northern form for to do. Compare Affair

Pronunciation

IPA: WEAE /ʌˈdu/

Noun

1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
3. A male [given name]. See Adolph

French

Etymology

Shortened form of adolescent

Pronunciation

Noun

fr-noun mf

1. teen, teenager

Ado or ADO may refer to:

• ActiveX Data Objects, a Microsoft API
• Ado (archbishop) (d. 874)
• Ado (Akan ruler) (fl. 1550)
• Autobuses de Oriente, a passenger bus service in Mexico
• ADO Ampex Digital Optics (a formerly renowned digital video effects system by Ampex)
• Ado (monk), a monk of Goguryeo
• ADO Den Haag, a football club
• Ado's Theorem
• Australian Defence Organisation
• Andamooka Airport, from its IATA code
• Hokkaido International Airlines, from its ICAO code
• Eduardo Roberto Stinghen, a Brazilian footballer
• Ado-Ekiti, a city in Ekiti State, Nigeria
• Ado Annie, a character who appears in the 1943 musical Oklahoma!, the 1955 film Oklahoma, and the 1979 film Oklahoma
• Ado, an Estonian given name
• Short form of the name Adnan
• Assyrian Democratic Organization

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