makey-uppy

alternative makey uppy · alternative makey-up · alternative makey up

1. Made up, invented.
   1. IrelandScotlandchildishnot comparableFictional.

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

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

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

      1999, Larry O'Loughlin, Is anybody listening?, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, →ISBN, page 99

   2. IrelandScotlandderogatoryinformalnot comparableInvented without good reason; fake, pretend, pretentious, inauthentic, artificial.

      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.

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

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

      2009, Clodagh, “The Assassinators: an interview”, in The Rag, number 4, Dublin, page 12