英和和英

語源

From make up (“invent”) +‎ -y.

形容詞

makey-uppy (not comparable)

1. (Ireland and Scotland) made up, invented
   1. (childish) fictional
      • 1999, Larry O'Loughlin, Is anybody listening?‎, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 99:

        ‘Kathmandu?’ said Laura, surprised. ‘I thought that was one of those makey-uppy places, like Jibberovia or Ballygobackwards.’

      • 2012, Jennifer Johnston, Shadowstory‎, Leicester: W.F. Howes, →ISBN, page 18:

        'What's fiction?'
        ‘Makey-uppy. Like you read in books.’

   2. (informal, derogatory) invented without good reason; fake, pretend, pretentious, inauthentic, artificial
      • 2009, Clodagh, “The Assassinators: an interview”, in The Rag‎, number 4, Dublin, page 12:

        The Assassinators, from Denmark, play poppy (but rocking) political punk rock that makes you want to dance and sing-along in makey-uppy Danish.

      • 2017, Michael P. Harding, “The Client”, in On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist‎, Dublin: Hachette Books Ireland, →ISBN, page 4:

        Rather than being powerless in the face of death, I became God in my own little universe of stories. My own little makey-uppy dreamland.