arty-farty

(British informal) also artsy-fartsy (American informal)

something or someone that is arty-farty tries too hard to seem connected with serious art, and is silly or boring because of this Rob's friends were a couple of arty-farty types who talked endlessly about the decline of the modern American novel.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Giuliano	joo-LYAH-no	Italian
Patime	-	Uyghur
Crawford	['krɔfəd]
Aliya (1)	-	Kazakh, Tatar, Arabic
Berta	BER-tah (Polish, German, Italian)	Polish, Czech, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Slovene
Chambers	['tʃeimbəz]