English

Verb

knit yoghurt ‎(third-person singular simple present knits yoghurt, present participle knitting yoghurt, simple past and past participle knitted yoghurt)

1. (humorous, sometimes pejorative) To behave in a left-wing or hippie fashion; an imagined activity among left-wing and hippie groups.
   • 2004, William Venator, Vestiges of Freedom, WritersPrintShop (ISBN 9781904623304), page 69

     Keep off hugging organic trees while doing GM-free yoga and knitting yoghurt, and I'll be happy.

   • 2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, New Island Books

     Certainly, there's no shortage of tree-huggers in magical, mystical Ireland, but mostly they're foreign nationals who stay over West, behaving themselves, doing up cottages, knitting yoghurt and stuff.

   • 2012, Shirley Wells, Dying Art, Harlequin (ISBN 9781426894602), page 146

     He didn't look as if he knitted yoghurt for one thing. He looked too sensible and respectable to have anything in common with Dylan's dope-smoking mother.

   • 2013, Joanna Nadin, The Life of Riley, Oxford University Press - Children (ISBN 9780192733894)

     Mum is going to join the Greens instead. Dad says at least they are all so busy knitting yoghurt they do not have time for sexual scandal.

Derived terms

• yoghurt-knitting
• yoghurt-knitter