makey-up

Example Sentences

• "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"