Emoji dictionary

šŸ† Eggplant emoji

or Aubergine emoji [ eg-plant, -plahnt ih-moh-jee ]

What does  mean?

TheĀ eggplantĀ emojiĀ is a long, purple eggplant, but itā€™s really just used to represent a penis.Ā 

Related words

šŸ‘ Peach emoji, šŸŒ Banana emoji, šŸ’¦ Sweat Droplets emoji, šŸŒ­ Hot Dog emoji

Where does šŸ† Eggplant emoji come from?

eggplant emoji on light purple background

TheĀ eggplantĀ emoji first debuted in 2010 and quickly became a symbol for the penis. According to ā€œAmong the New Words,ā€ a quarterly article in the journalĀ American Speech, theĀ eggplantĀ emoji was used on Twitter to mean ā€œpenisā€ as early as 2011. In March of 2014, the video artist Jesse Hill ā€œtranslatedā€ BeyoncĆ©ā€™s hit song ā€œDrunk in Loveā€ into emoji, using theĀ eggplantĀ to represent Jay Zā€™s penis.

 

 

 

Later that year, the emoji inspired a trend on Instagram and other social-media sites called “#EggplantFriday,” a hashtag that was linked to posts where men posted explicit images of their ā€œeggplants.ā€ But in 2015, Instagram actually blocked theĀ eggplantĀ emoji and references to it (e.g., “#eggplant”) from its search functionality. Instagramā€™s ban resulted in a campaign called “#FreetheEggplant,” modeled after the similar campaign “#FreetheNipple,” in 2012 for gender equality.

 

 

 

 

In 2016, the American Dialect Society named theĀ eggplantĀ emojiĀ the ā€œMost Notable Emojiā€ of 2015 due to its widespread use as sexual innuendo. TheĀ eggplantĀ emoji has also inspired two companies, Eggplant in the Mail and the Eggplant Mail, which let customers send actual eggplants in the mail as gag gifts. And, the company Emojibrator released anĀ eggplantĀ emoji vibrator in 2016 ā€¦ of course.

 

Examples of šŸ† Eggplant emoji

#BreakingNews: We're launching an exciting new savoury #condom range - Eggplant flavour!  - eggplant emoji #CondomEmoji
@durex, September, 2016
Had anyone used this  - eggplant emoji as anything other than a penis? #realtalk #eggplant #orisit ?  - face with tears of joy emoji - face with tears of joy emoji
@yahhhbitch,Ā June, 2016
But donā€™t cry for the eggplant. Itā€™s going to take a long time for bros to stop snickering every time they walk through a late-August farmersā€™ market, or read the menu at a Middle-Eastern joint. And hey, that peach is still up for grabsā€¦
Regan Hofmann, ā€œThe Complete (and Sometimes Sordid) History of the Eggplant Emoji,ā€ First We Feast,Ā June, 2015
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Who uses šŸ† Eggplant emoji?

The eggplant emoji is also called the aubergine emoji in the UK and Japan. While it can literally refer to the food item (eggplant parmesan, perhaps?), itā€™s most often used online to represent a penis. This is in large part due to other emoji representations of long foods associated with penises (like the banana or cucumber) looking less like ā€¦ well ā€¦ penises.

 

 

The eggplant emoji is frequently combined with other emoji. When paired with the mouth emoji, it means oral sex. When paired with the peach emoji, (a butt or female genitalia), it means anal or vaginal sex. When next to the sweat droplets emoji, it means ejaculation. And, thatā€™s how you sext …

The eggplant emoji has become so associated with the penis that people even use the word eggplant as a stand in, or euphemism for, the word penis. It just sounds better.

 

 

 

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