Meaning of makey-up | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“my husband and I like⟳ good, straightforward food — I mean⟳ no 'makey-up' dishes”

“Regular diary reader, Al Issener (which sounds like⟳ a makey-up name⟳, but is probably traceable on one of those clan heritage computers you see⟳ in tourist shops) seems to share⟳ my love⟳ of signs and posters.”

“On the way out, I noticed the menu of Trinity’s fancier restaurant, The 1592. Mains were around the €25 mark⟳, and the “Supreme of Chicken”, “farce”, and such makey-up words as vermoulade and tian – you know⟳ the standard nonsense – got my back up from the get-go.”

“I DON’T KNOW⟳ about you but I am continually sickened by the D4/ Dart/ mid-Atlantic/ makey-up English accent that is blighting Ireland. I first noticed it in the early 1990s in Wexford when middle-class Dubs would put⟳ on an accent to distinguish themselves from working-class Dubs when on holidays in the same caravan parks in Wexford.”

“What we've seen here has been the latest instalment of insider, crony, cosy politics around Fine Gael in particular, and with the Government more generally, it's clear that a makey up job was provided for a friend of Government, in this case Katherine Zappone.”

“the telly version of high school is more of a makey-up fantasy realm like⟳ Hobbiton or Narnia or Dalkey than a real place⟳”

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