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1. derogatoryhumoroussometimesA left-wing, environmentalist or hippie person.

   2005, "review of The March of Unreason: Science, democracy and the new fundamentalism", New Scientist However, what I see is rational atheist Greens arguing fiercely with the homeopathic yoghurt-knitters, not a homogenous sect.

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   New Age mumbo-jumbo about 'living in balance' with whatever the latest thing some dippy yoghurt knitter from the West Coast of the United States of Woo- Woo has just discovered as being vital to our wellbeing.

   2004, Rohan Candappa, Retox Diet, Ebury Press, →ISBN

   Food, real food, not nut cutlets then, and not too many women, as a consequence, of this highly individualistic life style. The idea of being a yoghurt knitter had no appeal.

   2010, Derrick Stitt, The Story of Never Ending Coincidences Conundrums and Encounters That Encompassed Me and Thee: Their Repetitive Encounters Placed In Dimensions And Time, I Observe Now, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 13

   It would reinforce the division of the world into, if I might generalise wickedly, the Jaguar set and yurt-dwelling yoghurt knitters.

   2012, Alastair McIntosh, Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, Birlinn, →ISBN

   Synonyms: lentil-weaver, tree hugger