yoghurt-knitting

9.9

A funny hobby of making cloth items using yoghurt as yarn

noun
/ˈjoʊɡərt ˈnɪtɪŋ/

: tejer con yogur

At the quirky arts festival, she organized a yoghurt-knitting workshop that drew curious onlookers.

Examples

Some satirical articles mention yoghurt-knitting as the latest trend in eccentric crafts.
His friends joked about joining the yoghurt-knitting club to try something truly unique.
I tried yoghurt-knitting once, and it was quite messy.
Have you ever heard of yoghurt-knitting?
At the quirky arts festival, she organized a yoghurt-knitting workshop that drew curious onlookers.
His friends joked about joining the yoghurt-knitting club to try something truly unique.
Some satirical articles mention yoghurt-knitting as the latest trend in eccentric crafts.

Synonyms

underwater basket weaving

vsyoghurt-knitting

Slang

9.5

A joke name for an easy, useless college class

is a playful satirical hobby example rather than a dismissive label for courses

Surface Forms

yoghurt-knitting singular

yoghurt-knittings plural

Morphology

yoghurt-knitting = yoghurt + knitting (transparent) = yoghurt + knitting

Meaning is a straightforward, humorous compound of 'yoghurt' + 'knitting' and is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

Yoghurt-knitting is a playful compound of yoghurt 'a soft dairy food' and knitting 'making cloth with needles', imagining the silly idea of knitting with yoghurt. So this messy, impossible picture helps you remember it means a quirky or eccentric hobby used jokingly or in satire.