artfag

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/ˈɑɹtˌfæɡ/

noun

A pretentious artist or person interested in the arts.

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nounartfag (plural artfags)

plural artfags

  1. derogatoryslangvulgarA pretentious artist or person interested in the arts.

    As I popped open the blister packs, I thought of all the other things I could be doing: writing a story, reading a story, dancing with the artfags, protesting something.

    2011, Stacy Pershall, Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 107
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    […] I was still really horny but my lust wasn't directed at anyone in particular it was sort of a generalized desire maybe my standards were too high but after a while the thought of fucking another one of those stuck up pomo boho artfags really turned my stomach […]

    1997, Jeffrey DeShell, S & M, FC2, →ISBN, page 136

    “Someone posted on the Internet that Tom Waits was showing up. I guess they all figure if Tom Waits shows, Jim Jarmusch might show because he's shooting a film in Portland, and they figure if Jim Jarmusch shows, Johnny Depp can't be too far behind. So, therefore, you get all these loser artfags going to a see a band they've never heard of before tonight.”

    2004, Garth Stein, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, Soho Press, →ISBN

    Synonyms: artfuck

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA pretentious artist or person interested in the arts.

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APA

artfag. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artfag

MLA

“artfag.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artfag. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “artfag,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artfag.

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