Meaning

(yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga..

Definitions by Sense

1. (yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga.
2. (transitive, informal) To turn (someone) into a yogi; to lead into practicing yoga.
3. (US, thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.

Example Sentences

Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.

It's a yogi trick of some sort.

To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.

There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.

You do not even need to be psychoanalyzed, Rolfed, estered, altered, gelded, neutered, spayed, fixed, Mooned, acupunctured, meditated, Zenned, massaged, Cayced, yogied, New Aged, astrocharted, holisticized, computerized, megatrended, therapized, androgynized, evangelized, converted, or even, last and least, to be reborn.

I meet hundreds of people each year who have been New Thoughted, Mind Scienced, Eckankared, Rosicrucianed, l Amed, White Brotherhooded, Scientologied and, yes, even yogied — to the point of mental numbness.

He had followed Larry faithfully for two days, getting yelled at and grieved over and yogied into a pretzel and fucked over by all sorts of weirdoes who seemed to find him a nice object to act on.

Ready to do some hiking now that we are through yogi-ing? I asked, grinning at Map Man. The hikers looked up at me quizzically, but Map Man knew yogi-ing meant the good natured way thru-hikers ask for food without actually begging.

Word Forms

• yogis
• ioggue
• iogue
• jogue
• jougie
• joguey
• jogee
• jogi
• yoguee
• yogue
• yogee
• yogin
• yoghi
• yoghee
• joghi
• joghee
• yogi-ing
• yogied

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When Should You Use Yogi?

Use yogi when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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