单词 | what's ado? |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat's ado? In predicative use: = adoing adj. what's ado?: what's wrong (with a person)? Formerly also as adv.: †at work; astir (obsolete). ΚΠ 1536 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 77 The occasioun that is now ado. 1577 W. Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 56 Upon Thursday there was nothing ado but preaching of Sermondes. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 109 Quhateuir was ado in the Realme. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxvii. sig. F3v Onely an eager bustling, that rather keepes adoe, then do's any thing. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 291 The tryell of presbyteries is the principall thing that is ado at this tyme. 1698 J. Newton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 263 How now, what is here ado? a1774 R. Fergusson Poems Var. Subj. (1779) 53 Death, what's ado? the de'il be licket. 1832 T. Fowler Jrnl. Tour through Brit. Amer. 231 The villagers ran to the doors and windows to see what was ado. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. v. 76 ‘Why! Philip, what's ado? How ill yo' look, man!’ exclaimed he, thoroughly alarmed by Philip's ghastly appearance. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters xxv. 281 ‘What's ado wi' the fellow?’ cried Gourlay. 1998 N. Harper Spik o the Place at Adee A word heard very rarely on its own; more often as part of the friendly query: ‘Fit's adee?’, meaning ‘What's wrong?’ 2003 R. J. Daniel End of Era xii. 244 Her arrival with the little dogs was always an event with sweets and Meadowland apples for the children who came to see what was ado. < as lemmas |
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