To-do

Definition: To-do

To-do

Noun

1. A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "to-do" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: To-do \To-do"\, noun. [To do. Compare to Ado.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: To-do

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Crosswords: To-do

Books

• Life Is More Than Your To-Do List: Blending Business Success With Personal Satisfaction (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "to-do": to-do-list.

Ending with "to-do": well-to-do.

Containing "to-do": how-to-do-it, how-to-do-it book.

Albanian

zhurmë (ado, bang, blatancy, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, jangle, noise, noisiness, racket, smash, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), shamatë (bedlam, carrying-on, din, hubbub, hurly burly, racket, rumpus). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, tumult, turmoil, uproar), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, pother, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Chinese 

对做. (various references)

Dutch

rompslomp (fuss), bedoening (fuss). (various references)

Esperanto

penigaĵoj (fuss). (various references)

German

trara (ballyhoo, hullabaloo, tantara), theater (audience, carry on, drama, fuss, game, hassle, kerfuffle, palaver, scene, stage, theater, theater US, theaters, theaters US, theatre, theatres), tamtam (ballyhoo, din, fuss, row, tomtom, tom-tom), zirkus (big top, circus, fuss), wirbel (catch, cowlick, crown, eddies, eddy, frenzy, peg, pirouette, roll, swirl, turmoil, vertebra, vertebrae, vortex, vortices, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl), spuk (din, fuss, ghost, palaver, phantom, racket, spook), skandal (affray, commotion, fuss, outrage, scandal), klamauk (fuss, hullabaloo, racket, slapstick, tomfoolery), getue (ado, affectation, fuss, fussbig). (various references)

Hungarian

lárma (ado, blare, bluster, bobbery, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, jangle, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, racket, row, ruckus, shindy, splatter-dash). (various references)

Italian

putiferio (mess). (various references)

Korean 

에 (AT, AT&T, On, through, Thru, To, To-, Upon, with). (various references)

Pig Latin

o-dotay

Portuguese

rebuliço (fuss, fussiness, stir, stirabout, uproar), confusão (abashment, baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfort, discomposure, disturbed, Donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul up, fuddle, hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbrue, intricate, involution, involvement, jumble, kettledrum, labyrinth, macaronic, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, Ravel, rough and tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, Donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurrah, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, tumult, uproar), alvoroço (ado, affray, agitation, bustle, commotion, Donnybrook, flutter, rampage, roughhouse, rout, tumult), agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excite, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, gurgitation, heartbeat, hoodoo, hurly burly, inquietude, perturbation, Popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian

tapaj (ado, din, fuss, row, shindy), tam-tam (fuss, hubbub), tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, rattle, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, uproar), zgomot (ado, bruit, bustle, clamor, clamour, dash, din, fuss, hubbub, murmur, noise, peal, racket, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, tumult, uproar), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, tumult, turmoil, uproar), mofturi (airs and graces, fiddlesticks, flim-flam, trifles, whim, whims), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, jangle, noise, racket, rattle, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, tumult), fandosealã (affectation, bumptiousness, ceremony, finicalness, flirtation, fuss, haughtiness, jazz). (various references)

Russian 

суматоха (bustle, clutter, fuss, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, jumble, kerfuffle, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, ruffle, rumpus, splutter, tumult, tumults, turmoil), суета (ado, bustle, bustling, fuss, kerfuffle, scurry, stir, vanity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rađenje (ongoings, working), larma (bobbery, noise), buka (ado, clamor, clamour, din, hurly burly, noise, racket, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Spanish

jaleo (commotion, dance, din, fuss, jumble, pandemonium, racket, row, shouting). (various references)

Swedish

väsen (ado, being, din, entity, essence, essentiality, fiber, fibre, fuss, noise, personality, rat race), ståhej (ado, ballyhoo, kerfuffle). (various references)

Turkish

telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, turmoil, whirl), patırtı (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, disorder, dustup, fracas, noise, plump, riot, roughhouse, row, rumpus, sound and fury, stir, tumult, welter), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Ukrainian

сум'яття (alarm, helter-skelter, pandemonium, tumble, whirl), метушня (ado, alarm, bustle, buzz, clutter, flurry, fuss, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stir, stirabout, turmoil, whirl). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự om sòm (fuss, noisiness, riotousness, rough house, row-de-dow, shindy, tumult), sự nhặng xị tiếng �"n � o, sự huyên náo (affray, bobbery, riotousness, row-de-dow, shindy, shine, shone, stir, tempest), sự ỏm tỏi. (various references)

to don. (various references)

Misspellings

"To-do" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bt-du, doo-da, oo-joa, todi, tondo, tondu, toq-toq, torda, Tordjo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dot, oot, tod, too.

-2 letters: do, od, to.

+1 letter: ootid, outdo, stood, tondo.

+2 letters: booted, dhooti, doctor, footed, hooted, hotdog, hotrod, looted, mooted, ootids, rooted, sooted, toledo, tomcod, tondos, tooled, tooted, toroid, toxoid.

+3 letters: boosted, coopted, dhootie, dhootis, disroot, doctors, dogtrot, donator, doormat, dovecot, dropout, duotone, fatwood, foldout, footled, footpad, holdout, hoptoad, hotdogs, hotrods, kotowed, motored, nutwood, octopod, odonate, odorant, orotund, osteoid, outdoer, outdoes, outdone, outdoor, outdrop, outmode, outplod, outrode, outsold, outtold, photoed, postdoc, redroot, ridotto, roosted, scooted, snooted, soothed, stooged, stooked, stooled, stooped, tabooed, tandoor, toehold, toledos, tomcods, toothed, tootled, tornado, toroids, torpedo, tostado, towmond, toxoids, trooped, twofold, upstood, woodcut, woodlot.

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