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Eggplant Emoji 🍆

A purple aubergine with a green stem, the eggplant emoji covers cooking and grocery contexts but is best known for something else entirely. It's a widely recognized euphemism for male genitalia, making it one of the internet's most suggestive emojis alongside the peach.

What 🍆 means

Brinjal, aubergine, eggplant — pick your regional name, it's the same vegetable everywhere. Online it leads a double life: a cooking ingredient in the produce-aisle sense, and long-standing slang for male genitalia in the other.

How and when to use it

Firstly, using 🍆 as a vegetable - you can use this emoji in the caption while indicating that the picture or video (of a dish) that you're posting has eggplant in it.
You can also use 🍆 while sharing an eggplant-based dish recipe either as a social media post or even as a text or direct message (DM).
Now, the more widely used reference of 🍆 - it signifies the penis in the virtual world of using emojis and sexting. This too comes in variations (Jesus. No puns intended) depending on the consecutive emojis, like 💦 Sweat Droplets (🍆💦).
It so happens that nowadays 🍆 is very much = only to the male sex organ. Using this emoji in any context would blindly translate the subject to a sexual context unless the reason is mentioned. For instance, "Made this incredible dish! 🍆 A traditional aubergine recipe from my hometown!" (see, the last part is very necessary).
A piece of info; #🍆 was taken down by Instagram due to its explicit usage and content.

Other Names

🍆 Aubergine
🍆 Brinjal
🍆 Baby Eggplants (the small ones. VEGETABLES)
🍆 Indian Eggplants
🍆 White Eggplant
🍆 Green Eggplant or Thai Eggplant
🍆 Penis (unofficially)
🍆 Dick (unofficially)

🍆 in real conversations

What does 🍆 mean from a girl?

Sent in a flirty or sexting exchange, it's shorthand for a specific body part — same read no matter who sends it. Outside that context, a girl posting 🍆 is far more likely cooking dinner than not.

What does 🍆 mean from a guy?

Usually a wink at his own anatomy, often paired with 💦 or 😏 to make the joke unmissable. A guy actually cooking eggplant will spell that out in the caption rather than leave it to guesswork.

What does 🍆 mean in texting?

The slang meaning is so dominant that the literal vegetable needs a caption to survive — “made this incredible dish 🍆” only reads as a recipe because the sentence around it says so.

The lowdown

Category: Food & Drink › food-vegetable
Codepoints: U+1F346
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :eggplant:
Keywords: aubergine, eggplant, vegetable

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.