muesli muncher

English

Alternative forms

• muesli-muncher

Noun

muesli muncher (plural muesli munchers)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person holding leftist, pacifist views associated with hippies and environmental activism.

   Synonyms: crunchy granola, tree hugger

   • 1993, Plays and Players, numbers 470-477:

     […] not a man you would automatically associate with the world of alternative medicine, traditionally peopled with washed-out muesli-munchers in opened-toed sandals.

   • 2007, David Bullard, Screw it: Let's Do Lunch, page 101:

     The muesli munchers (Lefties) will probably say it's all because of poverty, but that's far too simplistic an explanation. Survival crimes, like cellphone theft, muggings and burglaries, happen all over the world […]

   • 2008, New Statesman, page 21:

     Porritt: "A bit of Brown thinks the environment is an agenda for muesli-munchers" […] middle-class, muesli-munching Guardian readers.

   • 2016, Safia Minney, Slow Fashion: Aesthetics Meets Ethics:

     There is this idea that ethical fashion is for muesli-munchers in Jesus sandals and socks.