This word has always mildly intreagued me, I've only ever heard it in ..
"Without further ado" and much ado about nothing
I didn't know exactly what it meant until just now because I've just googled it.
It needs obsoleting.
This was fascinating.
I googled it's definition, & it came up with THE most wonderful list of adjectives, some real stonkers here. Adjectives are the key to good writing, & help make compelling reading, but I'm just hopeless with them. Bill Bryson made himself a zillionaire by writing books on what are often bland topics but with superb use of adjectives.
Anyway, here was the quite splendid definitions of "ado" I came across on google;
I had to look up the modern slang definition of "hoo-ha".
When Sally did her cheerleading routine I saw her hoo haa for a hot minute.
Oh dear.
Going back to brouhaha, it just seems a word that only very posh, well read or well-educated folks would use. I shall find the first excuse I can to do so.
coined in the late 1700's from the Latin Ipse dixit but first used in the Middle Ages- an unsupported dogmatic assertion i.e, to make a point without any back up facts
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We used to say "that was more than a hoo-ha, that was a brouhaha".
Not any more. Not once we'd seen our 17-yr-old daughter crying with laughter.
Words change over time. And, apparently, hoo-ha means something rather different to young people
BREXIT
The undefined being negotiated by the unprepared in order to get the unspecified for the uninformed.
When Sally did her cheerleading routine I saw her hoo haa for a hot minute.
Oh dear.
Going back to brouhaha, it just seems a word that only very posh, well read or well-educated folks would use. I shall find the first excuse I can to do so.
A pickthank is a gossiping telltale or someone who spreads malicious rumours in order to curry favour
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
c.1800 nonsense, humbug, bosh- the person who speaks like this is a flapdoodler
A rogue.
Any astonishing sight is a gapeseed.
Pretending to be busy when your mind is elsewhere i.e wanting to get out of work early to lay in the sun
A foolish or absent minded person. A simpleton.
First recorded in 1614.
Adjective meaning dismal. A Scottish word that might be derived from an old Irish word that refers to the wrinkling of ones brow.
coined in the late 1700's from the Latin Ipse dixit but first used in the Middle Ages- an unsupported dogmatic assertion i.e, to make a point without any back up facts
An 18th century word meaning to steal away secretly . For example " She condiddled a chocolate biscuit" .
A 19th century word meaning to go backwards rather than forwards on a task or mission to the point you wonder why you began in the first place