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形容詞

makey-up (not comparable)

1. (Ireland and Scotland) Alternative form of makey-uppy
   • 1968 August 8, George McDonnell, “Making Ends Meet?”, in The Irish Times‎, page 6:

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

   • 2007 June 24, Jeff Zycinski, “Signing On”, in JZ's Blog‎, BBC Scotland, retrieved 21-11-2025:

     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.

   • 2009 February 19, Peter, “The Buttery at Trinity”, in CheapEats.ie‎:

     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.

   • 2018 March 18, Michael Fortune, “'I'm sickened by the D4/ mid-Atlantic/ makey-up English accent that is blighting Ireland'”, in TheJournal.ie‎, Dublin:

     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.

   • 2021 September 2, Mary Lou McDonald, quoted by Vivienne Clarke, “McDonald says Taoiseach must take action on Zappone controversy”, in BreakingNews.ie‎:

     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.

   • 2022 May 27, Patrick Freyne, “This TV school is a makey-up fantasy realm, like Hobbiton, Narnia or Dalkey”, in The Irish Times‎, Dublin:

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