What does the eggplant emoji mean?

WHOEVER said a picture is worth a thousand words must have been talking about emojis.

With hundreds of different emojis to choose from, it’s hard to know what they actually mean – here’s the eggplant emoji rundown.

What does the eggplant emoji mean?

The Eggplant Emoji is a realistic cartoon of the long, purple vegetable with a green stem.

Though likely to be used when talking about the actual vegetable, the emoji has been infamously repurposed by the internet and is now known to represent the male genitalia.

It is one of the most popular emojis used for sexual innuendos, especially on dating apps and sexting.

As early as 2011, it was used on Twitter as a reference to the penis.

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In 2016, the emoji’s widespread use as a sexual innuendo led the American Dialect Society to vote it the most notable emoji of 2015.

Due to its phallic use, the emoji was once banned from Instagram’s search function in 2015.

However, it can also be used as an insult and as another way of saying someone is useless.

What other names does the emoji have?

Aubergine is the French name for the delicious vegetable.

In Australia and the US, an eggplant is called an eggplant.

Therefore, the eggplant emoji is also known as the eggplant emoji.

But other names for the symbol include phallic and purple vegetable emoji.

What other emojis have a sexual meaning?

When it comes to emojis that have a sexual meaning, there are many.

The peach emoji is often used to represent a bum while the beads of sweat are used to represent sexual fluids.

The Emojipedia team took a random sample of 100 tweets from their dataset and found that 33% of tweets use the peach as an abbreviation for butt and 27% of emoji use have sexual connotations or contain suggestive imagery.

The banana and cucumber emojis have the same meaning as the eggplant emoji.

While the pepperoni emoji is used when you want to spice things up.

The bone emoji is often used to ask for a date and the cat emoji or cat face emoji is used to symbolize the female genitalia.