Ado

Etymology
Northern at do ("to do"), supine of  do, don "to do". Influenced by practice of marking supines using the preposition at, att (compare  at gå "to go"). More at at, do

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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:commotion

Thesaurus
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