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Noun

yoghurt-knitter ‎(plural yoghurt-knitters)

1. (humorous, sometimes pejorative) A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.
   • 2004, Rohan Candappa, Retox Diet, Ebury Press (ISBN 9780091897772)

     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.

   • 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.

   • 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 9781453574904), page 13

     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.

   • 2012, Alastair McIntosh, **** and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, Birlinn (ISBN 9780857904898)

     It would reinforce the division of the world into, if I might generalise wickedly, the Jaguar set and yurt-dwelling yoghurt knitters.

Related terms

• knit yoghurt
• yoghurt-knitting

Synonyms

• lentil-weaver
• tree hugger