eggplant

See also: egg-plant and 🍆

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Etymology

From egg +‎ plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛɡ.plænt/, /-plɑːnt/
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Noun

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

  1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
    • 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”
  2. (Canada, US) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
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  3. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
    • 1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper):
      Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.
    • 2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life:
      "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.
    • 2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino:
      What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."
  4. (skateboarding, snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall

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