English

Alternative forms

• lentil weaving

Adjective

lentil-weaving ‎(not comparable)

1. (humorous, sometimes pejorative) Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
   • 2010, Caroline Deacon, The Babymoon Experience: How to nurture yourself and your baby through pregnancy and the early weeks, Hachette UK (ISBN 9780748118052)

     A home birth does not make you a lentil-weaving hippy or a dangerous, selfish nutter who is putting herself and her baby at risk.

   • 2012, "Red Mist" on Mumsnet, quoted by Natasha Joffe, Justine Roberts, Why Did Nobody Tell Me?, A&C Black (ISBN 9781408822265), page 55

     Imagine yourself as a beautiful, lentil weaving, Ma Walton type mother and after a while, you start to become the imagined mother!

   • 2013 April 2, Stuart Jeffries, "Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review", The Guardian

     How would lentil-weaving Guardian readers have fared in a land without dishwashers populated by toughs with beard lice? Badly, is my guess.

Related terms

• lentil-weaver

Synonyms

• tree-hugging
• yoghurt-knitting