arty-farty vs creative

arty-farty

adj
  • Pretentiously artistic; self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project. 

noun
  • Someone who is arty-farty. 

creative

adj
  • Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these. 

  • Original, expressive and imaginative. 

  • Designed or executed to deceive or mislead. 

  • A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic. 

noun
  • Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video. 

  • A person directly involved in a creative marketing process. 

How often have the words arty-farty and creative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )