eggplant

nounattested in dialogue

//ˈɛɡ.plænt//
//-plɑːnt//

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

noun

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
A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
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
A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

Etymology

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”).

Forms

plural: eggplants

egg · An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by…Egg · A surname.eggman · A man who delivers eggs.

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

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