Mulignan 

It's an ethnic slur for a black person, seemingly common for Italian-Americans. As User says, it comes from the Southern Italian mulignana, meaning eggplant, though most sources listed it as Sicilian.

Tony Soprano: What I mean is we're Italian?
Noah Tannenbaum: Oh, my dad is Jewish and my mother's family is African American.
Tony Soprano: Tanenbaum. Right. But on your application to Columbia, you didn't check Jewish did you?
Noah Tannenbaum: No. They can't ask about religious affiliation.
Tony Soprano: Oh, right...right...o' course. What'd you check?
Noah Tannenbaum: African American.
Tony Soprano: So we do understand each other; you're a ditsoon.
Noah Tannenbaum: Excuse me?
Tony Soprano: Charcoal Briquette...a mulignan.
Noah Tannenbaum: What's your problem?
Tony Soprano: I think you know what my problem is. You see your little friend up there. She didn't do you any favors bringing you into this house. Now I dunno what the fuck she was thinkin', we'll get to that later. See I got business associates who are black and they don't want my son with their daughters and I don't want their sons with mine.
Noah Tannenbaum: Fuck you!
Tony Soprano: See, that's the kind o' thing I'm hopin' to avoid. So when my little girl comes down the stairs, you're gonna say how nice it was to meet me, then you're gonna go drop her off at school and you're gonna say Goodbye.

Mulignan by goodfella68 May 21, 2018

moulignon 

A Italian-American shibboleth for "nigger". It is a corruption of melanzane, the Italian word for eggplant. Shibboleth is a code word. Spelling is variable.

"We had to come all the way to Cleveland for you to get beaten by a moulignon?"

Joe Pesci to DeNiro in Raging Bull

moulignon by Chapernicus January 26, 2010

mulignan 

A term derived from the Italian melenzane meaning "eggplant." It often is used as a derogatory term to describe black people. The term is of Neapolitan origin not Sicilian origin as some on here have stated. The Sicilian word sounds more like "milinciana" or mill-in-chyan-ah.

Junior Soprano : "Heroin back in the fifties it was raining cash with that shit. DiMaggio and his crew never saw a dime... Turns out, the cock sucker was making a fortune working with the mulignan."

mulignan by GazzNGabb July 9, 2021

mulignan 

-a racially offensive term for a black person (from Italian melanzana, which is an eggplant.)NOTE: there are hundreds of phonetic spellings out there; however, this is the ONLY correct Italian spelling of this word.

He was accused of being a racist when he called the black man a mulignan at the bus stop.

mulignan by weave March 18, 2003

Mulignan 

The origin of the AE word "mulignan" is not directly linked to the italian word "melanzana" (eggplant).
"Melanzana" is the standard italian word for "eggplant" but every region and even every town in the same region has its own dialect form(s).
I wanted to go further and made a little research and here is what I found.

"Melanzana" comes from the low-latin "melangolus" or"merongolus" from the arab "bâdindgiân". It is possible to find the same name in old french "mélangène" even if the current french word for "eggplant" is "aubergine".

As you can see from these examples, all the words are similar. We can assume that the AE word "mulignan"
was imported to the US by italian immigrants coming from a southern region but nothing tells us if it was Sicily or Napoli.

I hope this helped.

According to the different regions, one can find these forms of the italian word "melanzana":

"buligname" Abruzzo
"malangiana" Calabria
"marangiana" Puglia
"marignanu" Umbria
"melangiàne" Puglia
"mulingiana", "milinciana" Sicilia
"mulignana" Napoli

Mulignan by orros March 25, 2010

mulignan 

What they call black people on the Sopranos.

"Meadow's still goin' out wit dat mulignan." -Tony Soprano

mulignan by Tony Soprano February 9, 2004

Melignon 

This is the correct spelling of the word.

-It's Italian-American slang for eggplant which is a derogatory term used against blacks.
-They are called eggplants because "their heads look like the bottom of an eggplant."

1.Look at that melignon!

Melignon by JPistoia May 8, 2008