makey-up

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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