eggplant
/ˈɛɡ.plænt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.01 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
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Meaning
noun
The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.
American usage; Countable; Derogatory; Offensive; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”"
- "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.""
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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