to-do

[ tuh-doo ]
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noun,plural to-dos.Informal.
  1. bustle; fuss: They made a great to-do over the dinner.

Origin of to-do

1
before 900; Middle English, Old English; noun use of infinitive phrase; see to, do1, ado

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See ado.

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How to use to-do in a sentence

  • With time this land had mounted to great values and the holders had been made well-to-do thereby.

    The Homesteader | Oscar Micheaux
  • His parents were of the well-to-do farming class, occupied from one year's end to the other with the work of the fields.

    Bastien Lepage | Fr. Crastre
  • “But it certainly was a great to-do,” murmured Jessie, as she tried to see what the boys were doing.

  • Widder Morse wants to ape these well-to-do folks that live tother end o Whiffle Street.

  • A relative of the Virlaz family, well-to-do Jewish furriers of Leipsic.

    Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe

British Dictionary definitions for to-do

to-do

/ (təˈduː) /


nounplural -dos
  1. a commotion, fuss, or quarrel

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