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An eggplant fruit (sense 1) 
White eggplant fruits
edible fruit
color
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Alternative forms
[edit]- egg-plant
Etymology
[edit]From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɛɡ.plænt/, /-plɑːnt/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)
- (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine. Synonyms: (UK, Ireland) aubergine, (India, Malaysia, Singapore) brinjal, (India) baingan, (Caribbean, dated) brown jolly, (India, Trinidad and Tobago) baigan, (India, Trinidad and Tobago) bhaigan, (India) bangun, (Caribbean) melongene
- 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.”
- (US, Canada) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit. eggplant:
- (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."
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.
Derived terms
[edit]- Eggplant mosaic virus
- eggplanty
- Ethiopian eggplant
- pea eggplant
- scarlet eggplant
- wild eggplant
Translations
[edit] plant
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Further reading
[edit]- “eggplant n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “eggplant”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “eggplant”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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