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lentil-weaving

lentil-weaving adjective: having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.

Adjective

lentil-weaving (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, sometimes) Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
    • 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.2010, Caroline Deacon, The Babymoon Experience: How to nurture yourself and your baby through pregnancy and the early weeks, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • Imagine yourself as a beautiful, lentil weaving, Ma Walton type mother and after a while, you start to become the imagined mother!2012, "Red Mist" on Mumsnet, quoted by Natasha Joffe, Justine Roberts, Why Did Nobody Tell Me?, A&C Black →ISBN, page 55

Synonyms of lentil-weaving

Forms of lentil-weaving

alternative formlentil weaving

Origin of lentil-weaving

Formed similarly to yoghurt-knitting: weaving and cooking with lentils are two hobbies stereotypically associated with environmentally-conscious or hippie lifestyles. Coined on the parenting forum Mumsnet.

Questions about lentil-weaving

What does lentil-weaving mean?
Lentil-weaving means having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
What part of speech is lentil-weaving?
Lentil-weaving is an adjective.

Words near lentil-weaving in the dictionary

  1. lentil vetch
  2. lentil vetches
  3. lentil weaving
  4. lentil-weaver
  5. lentil-weavers
  6. lentil-weaving
  7. lentilist
  8. lentilists
  9. lentilly
  10. lentils
  11. lentinan

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