artfuck
English
Etymology
art + fuck
Noun
artfuck (plural artfucks)
- (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A pretentious artist or person interested in the arts.
- 1999, Maggie Estep, Soft Maniacs, Simon & Schuster (1999), →ISBN, page 121:
- I even had the balls to hit Barneys, which actually wasn't that remarkable since, the way I look, it's hard to tell if I'm some deliberately disheveled successful artfuck or just a down-and-out guy, […]
- 2004, Christopher R. Weingarten, "Spotlight: Liars", CMJ New Music Report, 23 February 2004:
- Since then, Liars severed ties with both their rhythm section and their metropolitan ways, deserting a borough infested with unwashed artfucks for the forests of New Jersey.
- 2008 December 13, nuny, “Re: Something that Simply Mystifies Meeeeeee”, in misc.writing, Usenet:
- Manson = just another pretentious artfuck. Bowie's version is a pathetic attempt to imitate Manson, who apparently thought he was parodying Morrison, not grokking that Morrison was parodying actual drinking songs.
- 1999, Maggie Estep, Soft Maniacs, Simon & Schuster (1999), →ISBN, page 121:
Synonyms
- artfag
See also
- arty-farty
Anagrams
- rat fuck, rat-fuck, ratfuck