Arty-crafty

  

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Arty-crafty

Definition: Arty-crafty

Arty-crafty

Adjective

1. Pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Arty-crafty

Synonym: artsy-craftsy (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Arty-crafty

"Arty-crafty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Arty-crafty" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Arty-crafty

Language Translations for "arty-crafty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

附庸风雅诡计多端. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

포병 간교한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ellynoil-keirdagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arty-craftyay

   

Spanish

  

pretensioso (artsy-craftsy, Arty, conceited, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious), pretencioso (airy, artsy-craftsy, Arty, conceited, exacting, exactingly, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gösterişli eşyalar yapan, gösterişli şeyler kullanan, gösterişli (artsy, Arty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, polished, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

химерний (arabesque, artsy-craftsy, baroque, chimerical, conceited, fanciful, freakish, notional, whimsical), вигадливий (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, baroque, fancy, niggled, notionate, overwrought), претензійний (ambitious, artsy-craftsy, attitudinizing, pretentious, rococo). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Arty-crafty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-r-r-t-t-y-y"

-4 letters: crafty, tartar.

-5 letters: array, attar, carat, carry, catty, craft, farcy, fatty, ratty, tarry, tarty, tatar, tract.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Arty-crafty


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 72 74 79 2D 63 72 61 66 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110010 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#116 &#121 &#45 &#99 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0074 0079 002D 0063 0072 0061 0066 0074 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3584869115698467728691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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