Meanings
alternative lentil weaving
- derogatoryhumorousnot comparablesometimesHaving 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, →ISBN2 more examples
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 55How would lentil-weaving Guardian readers have fared in a land without dishwashers populated by toughs with beard lice? Badly, is my guess.
2013 April 2, Stuart Jeffries, “Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek - TV review”, in The GuardianSynonyms: tree-hugging, yoghurt-knitting
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
Origin
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.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
lentil-weaving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lentil-weaving
“lentil-weaving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lentil-weaving. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lentil-weaving,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lentil-weaving.
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