ARTY-CRAFTY


Meaning of ARTY-CRAFTY in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective

also arty-and-crafty | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ; or artsy-craftsy |ärtsē|kraf(t)sē

Etymology: irregular from arts and crafts

1.

a. : simultaneously arty and somewhat useless, novel, and often expensive and uncomfortable

arty-crafty lawn furniture

b. : marked by pretension especially to artlessness or simplicity

arty-crafty street terminology that garden suburbs have lately made their own — Architectural Review

2. : arty 2

a free-thinking, arty-crafty little sculptress — Eleazar Lipsky

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.