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▪ I. artsy, n. N. Amer. colloq.
Brit. |ˈɑːtsɪ|, U.S. |ˈɑrtsi|
[‹ artsy adj.]
An artistic person, esp. one who affects a pretentious or eccentric style. Freq. in pl.
1968L. Bangs Mainlines, Blood Feasts & Bad Taste (2003) 18 As a semiliterate grass-smoking dropout, he was set up straight to take those liberals and artsies for all they were worth. 1987Folio Apr. 143/1 There is no need for an art director to work on a terminal. It is possible—and it may even be attractive to some of the techno-type artsies out there. 1996Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 23 Dec. b3 Speak English to preppies and artsies, French to the Euro-chic. 2003Village Voice (N.Y.) 16 July 66/1 Ditto for the drama-club artsies.
▪ II. artsy, a. colloq.|ˈɑːtsɪ|
[f. arts (and crafts) + -y1.]
artsy-(and-)craftsy a.: = arty-(and-)crafty (see arty-and-crafty a. and art n. 17); artsy-fartsy a., pretentiously artistic.
1902Temple Bar CXXVI. 63 The furniture is of the *Artsy-Craftsy order. 1942Coward Blithe Spirit ii. iii. 85 It's no use trying to defend Ruth's taste to me—it's thoroughly artsy craftsy. 1942J. B. Priestley Blackout iii. 27 That kind of woman frequently opened just that kind of artsy-craftsy shop. 1971Frendz 21 May 2/2 *Artsy-fartsy. If they can call property Art, we can call anything we bloody well please Art. 1984A. F. Loewenstein This Place 31 This new one, Sonya, an artsy-fartsy feminist, the one thing their little staff had lacked until now.
▸ Artistic, esp. in a self-conscious or pretentious manner. Cf. arty adj. 1, artsy-fartsy adj.
1947Washington Post 2 June 5 b/4, I wear Chinese pajamas while I paint and they're pretty artsy. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 176 Even the cockroaches in his house are queer.—Really, said Herschel..,—how artsy can we get. 1970J. Lennon in J. Wenner Lennon Remembers (1971) 172 There was a couple of artsy type students..lying around there in the gallery. 1981C. James Glued to Box (1983) 188 This production, although indefatigably artsy, somehow contrived to miss out..on the dignity of its subject. 2003Time Out N.Y. 8 May 39/2 This arrangement would be good for a cool, ex-hippie, artsy mom.
▸ artsiness n. the quality or state of being artsy.
1968Christian Sci. Monitor 27 Nov. 18/3 Pretentious, symbol-laden bore substitutes *artsiness for art in tale about young man and two girls whose sex lives and fantasy lives intermingle. 2000Us Weekly 31 July 43/1 The Five Senses does nothing to change Canadian cinema's reputation for glum artsiness, but its rich atmosphere still results in an intimate and absorbing moviegoing experience. |