Arty-farty
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"In a mixed review of Transformer for Rolling Stone magazine, Nick Tosches highlighted four "quality" songs, including "Satellite of Love" but dismissed most of the album as "artsyfartsy kind of homo stuff" that lacks assertiveness." --Sholem Stein |
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Arty-farty means self-important, pretentious or self-indulgent, esp. when describing an artistic project.
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argy-bargy, arty-farty, boogie-woogie, bow-wow, chock-a-block, claptrap, easy-peasy, eency-weency, fuddy-duddy, fuzzy-wuzzy, gang-bang, hanky-panky, harum-scarum, heebie-jeebies, helter-skelter, herky-jerky, hi-fi, higgledy-piggledy, hobnob, Hobson-Jobson, hocus-pocus, hodge-podge, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, honey-bunny, hot-pot, hotch-potch, hubble-bubble, hugger-mugger, Humpty-Dumpty, hurdy-gurdy, hurly-burly, hurry-scurry, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, loosey-goosey, lovey-dovey, mumbo-jumbo, namby-pamby, nimbly-bimbly, nitty-gritty, nitwit, okey-dokey, pall-mall, palsy-walsy, pee-wee, pell-mell, picnic, razzle-dazzle, roly-poly, rumpy-pumpy, sci-fi, super-duper, teenie-weenie, teeny-weeny, tidbit, walkie-talkie, willy-nilly, wingding
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- Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.
- The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions.
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