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Eggplant - What does it mean?

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eggplant

English

Alternative forms

* egg-plant

Noun

  • (North America) The plant Solanum melongena .
  • (North America) The edible fruit of the Solanum melongena : an aubergine.
  • (North America) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
  • (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person (used mainly by Italian-Americans).
  • * 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 ."

    Synonyms

    * (the plant or its fruit) aubergine (UK), brinjal * (the fruit) melongene (UK)

    See also

    * (wikipedia "eggplant")

    Not English

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