eggplant

noun
/ˈɛɡ.plænt/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from plantō
  2. inherited from plantian — “to plant
  3. inherited from planten
  4. derived from planta
  5. inherited from *plantu
  6. inherited from plante
  7. inherited from plante
  8. compounded as eggplant — “egg + plant

Definitions

  1. The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit

    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. A black person

    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.
    • "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. + 1 more definition
    1. A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the…

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

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA