artsy-fartsy

adjective

art·​sy-fart·​sy ˌärt-sē-ˈfärt-sē 

variants or less commonly artsy fartsy

chiefly US, informal

: showily or pretentiously artistic : arty, artsy

My dad's not really in touch with my art, but he's also a total country boy who married an artsy-fartsy, Ms. Frizzle-type woman.

—Ryan Dombal

Your Twitter and Facebook feed are probably bombarded with artsy fartsy shots of food and architecture, snapped by your friends that don't exactly have a BFA, and sometimes it's just annoying.

—Leslie Horn

Whatever the novel may be like, the movie Snow Falling on Cedars is a pretentious, artsy-fartsy catastrophe …

—John Simon

Word History

Etymology

rhyming compound based on artsy and fart entry 2

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above