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yoghurt-knitter en · NOUN

Etymology

From yoghurt + knitter.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, sometimes) A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.
   • New Age mumbo-jumbo about 'living in balance' with whatever the latest thing some dippy yoghurt knitter from the West Coast of the United States of Woo- Woo has just discovered as being vital to our wellbeing. 2004, Rohan Candappa, Retox Diet, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
   • 2005, "review of The March of Unreason: Science, democracy and the new fundamentalism", New Scientist However, what I see is rational atheist Greens arguing fiercely with the homeopathic yoghurt-knitters, not a homogenous sect.
   • It would reinforce the division of the world into, if I might generalise wickedly, the Jaguar set and yurt-dwelling yoghurt knitters. 2012, Alastair McIntosh, Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, Birlinn, →ISBN:
   • Food, real food, not nut cutlets then, and not too many women, as a consequence, of this highly individualistic life style. The idea of being a yoghurt knitter had no appeal. 2010, Derrick Stitt, The Story of Never Ending Coincidences Conundrums and Encounters That Encompassed Me and Thee: Their Repetitive Encounters Placed In Dimensions And Time, I Observe Now, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13:

Forms

Relateds

yoghurt-knitting · knit yoghurt

Synonyms

tree hugger · lentil-weaver