knit yoghurt

verb

To behave in a left-wing or hippie fashion; an imagined activity among left-wing and hippie groups.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person knits yoghurt · participle present knitting yoghurt · participle past knitted yoghurt · past knitted yoghurt

  1. derogatoryhumoroussometimesTo behave in a left-wing or hippie fashion; an imagined activity among left-wing and hippie groups.

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

    2004, William Venator, Vestiges of Freedom, WritersPrintShop, →ISBN, page 69
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    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.

    2005, Stephen Price, Monkey Man, New Island Books

    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.

    2012, Shirley Wells, Dying Art, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 146

    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.

    2013, Joanna Nadin, The Life of Riley, Oxford University Press - Children, →ISBN

Origin

Humorous conflation of knitting and yoghurt-making, two hobbies popular among groups who support sustainability and self-sufficiency.

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knit yoghurt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knit%20yoghurt

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