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  1. noun Bustle; fuss; trouble; bother.

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  • But now you tell me this ado is all the work of You-Know-Who —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • Without further ado, here are the finalists in the Cybils nonfiction picture book category. —  The Miss Rumphius Effect
  • With no further ado, then, here's how I make it all. —  divine angst
  • So without any further ado, here are the 90 people, places and things to watch in '09: —  The Brooklyn Paper: Full articles
  • Without further ado, here are Infinite Loop's Top 10 Apple Stories of 2008 ™ as ranked by pageviews, starting with none other than Jobs 'infamous "I can haz bettar MobileMe" memo in August: —  Daring Fireball
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from the phrase at do : at, to (used with infinitive) (from Old Norse at; see ad- in Indo-European roots) + do, do; see do1.

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  1. from Middle English ado, at do, North. dial. equivalent to English to do, the preposition at, Scandinavian at, being the sign of the infinitive, like to in literary English From the use of this infinitive in phrases like much ado, little ado, more ado, i. e., much to do, etc., ado came to be regarded as a noun (“ado, or grete bysynesse, sollicitudo,” Prompt. Parv., p. 7), qualified by much, little. more, and hence later great, any, etc., as an adjective Cf. affair, from Old French a faire, to do, a-do.
 

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