1 definition by normdog

ertsy

a derisive adjective used to describe a person who tries very hard to be avant-garde. the attempt is so painful as to effect the squeezing of the word artsy through the teeth so that it emerges as 'ert-see.'

"Trance DJ and a phil major? So ertsy," Becca said mildly.

by normdog March 9, 2004