- 1附庸風雅的、裝文青的（貶義，偏英式口語）
Arty-farty is an , informal British phrase for a person, place, or thing that tries too hard to look interested in art. It says the art-love is show, not real, or that it is silly and . People use it to laugh at galleries, films, clothes, or talk. It is playful but rude; do not say it to someone's face if you want to be kind. Americans more often say artsy-fartsy. Both halves rhyme on purpose: arty means “into art”, and farty is just there to sound comic and a little crude. You will hear it from people who feel left out of the art talk, or who want to cut someone down. It is not a polite essay word.
組成A rhyming playful doubling of arty (“trying to seem into art”). The farty half does not add a real meaning; it is there for the sound, and it is a bit crude.
同家族的字
- artythe first half: interested in art, sometimes in a showy way
- artsy-fartsythe American version of the same joking, unkind phrase
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
arty-fartyadj
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derogatoryinformalPretentiously artistic; self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project.
- I've had enough of this arty-farty modern sculpture!
- The rather disappointing—although unsurprising—message of the Economist article was that tattoos are no longer the edgy insignia of the free spirited but the arty-farty must-have accessory of the middle classes.
arty-fartynoun
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Someone who is arty-farty.
- The Mersey Sound, an anthology featuring the works of poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, became a best-seller in 1967 and encouraged thousands of working-class teenagers to read poetry; prior to its publication they probably thought poems were for middle-class arty-farties.
- Gave parties for all the campus arty-farties to come and drink up my booze and patronize me. . . . I could have had you that first night I brought you here.
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