单词 | arty-farty |
释义 | arty-fartyadj. colloquial (frequently depreciative). Pretentiously artistic. Cf. artsy-fartsy adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > characterized by other specific affectations folky1914 arty1915 arty-farty1946 folksy1947 artsy-fartsy1962 ton-up1964 1946 B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays xxxv. 141 They work in one of those arty-farty florists where they make you pay through the nose for a bunch of carnations. 1966 Tulane Drama Rev. 11 175/2 All the arty-farty tactics associated with conventional theatre. 1982 M. Kington Miles & Miles 61 The North is..trying to impose their bluff..values on our arty-farty-Dartington, southern way of life. 2003 M. Belson On the Press i. 63 The feeling at the time was that they certainly had a greater skill in design than the arty-farty designers who came to the Press straight from college. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1946 |
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