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Definition: Arty-crafty |
Arty-craftyAdjective1. Pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Arty-craftySynonym: artsy-craftsy (adj). (additional references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 pretensioso (artsy-craftsy, Arty, conceited, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious), pretencioso (airy, artsy-craftsy, Arty, conceited, exacting, exactingly, overblown, presumptuous, pretentious). (various references) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 74 79 2D 63 72 61 66 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110100 01111001 00101101 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r t y - c r a f t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0072 0074 0079 002D 0063 0072 0061 0066 0074 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3584869115698467728691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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