lentil-weaving

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Etymology

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.

Adjective

lentil-weaving (not comparable)

  1. (humorous, sometimes derogatory) Having left-wing, environmentalist or hippie leanings.
    • 2010, Caroline Deacon, The Babymoon Experience: How to nurture yourself and your baby through pregnancy and the early weeks, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2012, "Red Mist" on Mumsnet, quoted by Natasha Joffe, Justine Roberts, Why Did Nobody Tell Me?, A&C Black →ISBN, page 55
      Imagine yourself as a beautiful, lentil weaving, Ma Walton type mother and after a while, you start to become the imagined mother!
    • 2013 April 2, Stuart Jeffries, “Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek - TV review”, in The Guardian:
      How would lentil-weaving Guardian readers have fared in a land without dishwashers populated by toughs with beard lice? Badly, is my guess.

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