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eggplant

Substantivin Dialogen belegt

  • //ˈɛɡ.plænt//
  • //-plɑːnt//

The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

Substantiv

  1. 1

    The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

    Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

  2. 2

    A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

  3. 3

    SlangA black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

    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.

    "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.

    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. 4

    A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

Herkunft

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety. Compare Dutch and Afrikaans eierplant (“eggplant”), German Eierpflanze (“eggplant”), Swedish äggplanta (“eggplant”). Compare also Afrikaans eiervrug (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”), Icelandic eggaldin (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”).

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Plural
eggplants
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