eggplant
noun/ˈɛɡ.plænt/ · /-plɑːnt/
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”).
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Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US 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.”2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN:
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US, Derogatory, Offensive, Slang A 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.1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper):
- "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.2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life:
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- What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino:
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, Snowboarding, Sports A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.
- Derived terms
- Eggplant mosaic virus, eggplanty, Ethiopian eggplant, pea eggplant, scarlet eggplant, wild eggplant
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