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What does the aubergine emoji mean?
Plus why the eggplant icon might land you in trouble with the wrong person
WITH hundreds of different emojis to choose from, it’s hard to know what they actually mean and when to use them.
You've most likely heard of the aubergine emoji, but may not know in what context to add it to your messages.
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What does the aubergine emoji mean?
The aubergine emoji is a realistic cartoon of the purple eggplant.
Though it can be used to represent the nightshade vegetable, the emoji has been infamously repurposed by the internet to represent the male genitals.
It is one of the most popular emojis used for sexual innuendos, especially on dating apps and when sexting.
It was used as a reference to the penis on X (formerly Twitter) as early as 2011.
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In 2016, the emoji's widespread usage as a sexual innuendo led the American Dialect Society to vote it as the Most Notable Emoji of 2015.
Due to its phallic use, the emoji was once banned in 2015 on Instagram's search function.
However, it can also be used as an insult to say someone is useless.
What other names does the emoji have?
Aubergine is the British term for an eggplant.
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In Australia and the US, an aubergine is called an eggplant.
But other names for the symbol are phallic and purple vegetable emoji.
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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 sweat droplets are used to depict sexual fluids.
The Emojipedia team took a random sample of 100 tweets from their data set and found that 33 per cent of tweets use the peach as a shorthand for butt and 27 per cent of emoji usage has sexual connotations or includes suggestive imagery.
The banana and cucumber emojis have the same meaning as the aubergine emoji.
While the hot pepper emoji is used when you want to spice things up.
The bone emoji is often used to ask to hook up, and the cat emoji or cat face emoji is used to symbolize the female genitals.
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The smirk face emoji can be used to indicate that you mean something to be taken in a sexual context or are trying to flirt.
The is often used to show someone that you are sexually attracted to them, and the smiling devil emoji is also used to reference sexual intensions.
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