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make me en · X

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From make in the sense of "force", i.e. "you will have to force me to do it".

Meanings

  1. (childish, sarcastic) Used to refuse a request that one do something.
    • 🙎♀️You really need to clean your room! 👧Make me!
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, me.
    • “I wish you would make me a sandwich or two with your own hands, my mother,” he said. “Susan’s sandwiches are not appetising.” 1886, Mary Linskill, “The Haven under the Hill”, in Donald Macleod, editor, Good Words, London: Isbister and Company, […], chapter LXI (“One Last Kiss upon the Living Shore”), page 839, column 2: