Word.ws English Dictionary

yoghurt-knitting

yoghurt-knitting noun: an imagined hobby of left-wing, environmentalist or hippie people.

Noun

yoghurt-knitting (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, sometimes) An imagined hobby of left-wing, environmentalist or hippie people.
    • Neither does a not-great website whose amateurishness merely reinforces the suspicion that shambling yoghurt-knitting is still a popular activity.2004, The Architects' Journal
    • In this the instincts of traditional green politics towards insularity and self-sufficiency, the cause of all those gibes about yoghurt-knitting, are completely mistaken.2009, John Harman, The green crunch: why we need a new economics for Britain's environmental challenge

Adjective

yoghurt-knitting (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, sometimes) Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
    • Muesli, despite its sandal-wearing, yoghurt-knitting associations, isn't always as healthy as you might think.2004, Eve Cameron, Lose weight and stay slim: Secrets of fad-free dieting, Infinite Ideas, →ISBN, page 76
    • But green issues are clearly not our biggest concern because if they were we would have more of the lentil—eating, yoghurt—knitting 2CV drivers in Parliament, getting their noses into the no doubt organic trough.2008, Jon Gaunt, Gaunty's Best of British: It's Called Great Britain, Not Rubbish Britain, Random House, →ISBN, page 72

Synonyms of yoghurt-knitting

Origin of yoghurt-knitting

See knit yoghurt.

Questions about yoghurt-knitting

What does yoghurt-knitting mean?
Yoghurt-knitting means an imagined hobby of left-wing, environmentalist or hippie people.
What part of speech is yoghurt-knitting?
Yoghurt-knitting can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near yoghurt-knitting in the dictionary

  1. yoghurt knitters
  2. yoghurt knitting
  3. yoghurt maker
  4. yoghurt-knitter
  5. yoghurt-knitters
  6. yoghurt-knitting
  7. yoghurted
  8. yoghurtless
  9. yoghurtlike
  10. yoghurts
  11. yoghurty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yoghurt-knitting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yoghurt-knitting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yoghurt-knitting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.