make-up

Deverbal from make up.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mæɪkˈɐp/

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make-up (usually uncountable, plural make-ups)

1. Alternative spelling of makeup. See usage notes there.
   • 1961 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 760:

     From Whitemoor, left at 6.45 p.m., the train's make-up usually includes also some Continental ferry wagons, originating from Harwich.

make-up (not comparable)

1. Made-up, false, imaginary, fabricated.
2. (informal) Of or relating to a reconciliation.

   Joe and Joanne had a big fight, and then apologized and had incredible make-up sex.

make-up (third-person singular simple present make-ups, present participle make-upping, simple past and past participle make-upped)

1. Rare form of make up (“to put makeup on”).
   • 1922 March 22, “Belles Tint Faces to Match Gown Colors”, in The China Press, volume XII, number 3261, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 12, column 3:

     Orange, mauve, and cobalt blue are three favorite shades now employed by the woman who desires to “make-up” her face, according to the approved beauty standards.

   • 1999, Steve Rideout, “Tiddlywinks”, in Don’t Go Up a Windmill: Poems, Blue Springs, Mo.: Blue Windmill Books, →ISBN, page 84:

     And shame at what you thought was fard! It’s only make-upping your face.

   • 2005 February, Allison Rushby, Hating Valentine’s Day, Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 305:

     The make-up artist stops make-upping.

   • 2011, Gemma Burgess, chapter 10, in A Girl Like You, London: Avon, →ISBN, page 93:

     As we’re in the bathroom side-by-side, silently make-upping, Sophie turns to me.

   • 2013 July, Kelly Younger, “The Debutante Ball & The Lucky Spot”, in Henley in an Hour, Hanover, N.H.: In an Hour Books, →ISBN, page 26:

     Like Carnelle in The Miss Firecracker Contest, Teddy will attempt to transform herself on the outside by shaving, plucking, dressing, make-uping, and acting like a lady.

• “make*up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• upmake

Borrowed from English make-up.

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make-up m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. makeup (cosmetics)

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• make up

Unadapted borrowing from English make-up.

• IPA^(key): /mɛjˈkap/

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• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: ma‧ke-up

make-up m inan (indeclinable)

2. (uncountable, cosmetics) makeup (cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance)

   Synonym: makijaż

   Antonym: demakijaż

4. (countable, cosmetics) foundation (cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture)

   Synonyms: fluid, podkład

   Hypernym: kosmetyk

or

Indeclinable.

• “make-up”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “make-up”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English make-up.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmej.kap/

make-up n (plural make-upuri)

1. make-up