Meaning of yoghurt-knitter | Babel Free

Definitions

A left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.

derogatory, humorous, sometimes

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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