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• egg-plant

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛɡ.plænt/, /-plɑːnt/

名詞

eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)

1. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

   Synonyms: (UK, Ireland) aubergine, (India, Malaysia, Singapore) brinjal, (India) baingan, (Caribbean, dated) brown jolly, (India, Trinidad and Tobago) baigan, (India, Trinidad and Tobago) bhaigan, (India) bangun, (Caribbean) melongene

   • 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN‎:

     Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

2. (US, Canada) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

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3. (US, slang, derogatory, offensive) A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.
   • 1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper):

     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.

   • 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."

4. (skateboarding, snowboarding) A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

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Further reading

• “eggplant n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “eggplant”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “eggplant”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.