airtist
English
Etymology
Blend of airbrush + artist.
Noun
airtist (plural airtists)
- (slang, rare) An artist who uses airbrushes.
- 1998 July 12, Wayne Bisso, “Gina G”, in alt.airbrush.art, Usenet:
- Greetings, annoucing a new airtist site.
- 2002 March 23, C. Baltrinic, “Newbie airbrush woes”, in rec.models.scale, Usenet:
- One of the lastest issues of FINE SCALE MODELER has a long article on cleaning airbrushes. […] I guess they are great for T-Shirt airtists, but not for me ;-P
- 2003 May 20, victor maldonado, “Career Challenges...”, in adobe.photoshop.macintosh, Usenet:
- I've been a photographer (both in cinematography and still photgraphy) and airbrush airtist (surfboards and paintings) since 1971.
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Scots
Noun
airtist (plural airtists)
- artist
- 2017, Stuart McHardy, The Wey Forrit: A Polemic in Scots, Edinburgh: Luath Press, →ISBN:
- Bein an airtist, like maist o 'his sort', he didnae mak eneugh money bi the standarts set doun bi oor Government, an she, bein likewise 'a creative', didnae mak up the differ fer the baith o them, an sae he cuidna bide.
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References
- “airtist” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary, 2016.
- William Gilchrist Graham (1978), “airtist”, in The Scots Word Book, 2nd edition, Edinburgh: Ramsay Head Press, →ISBN, page 119