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parmesan-y

parmesan-y is the alternative form of parmesany.

Meaning of parmesany

Adjective

parmesany (comparative more parmesany, superlative most parmesany)

  1. (informal) With parmesan (type of cheese).
    • The homemade pasta was boiled al dente and the sauce was creamy, very parmesany and grainy but good.1979 March 25, John V. R. Bull, “Main event at Peppino’s is a good home-style menu”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 300, number 84, page 8-J
  2. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of parmesan (type of cheese).
    • The pizza is very thin, with a little tomato sauce and then melted cheese on top. It has a garlicy/parmesany taste IMO, and the crust is chewy.1994 December 8, Susan Miller, “NEW YORK STYLE PIZZA”, in dfw.eats (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 May 2025

Adjective capitalized: Parmesan-y

Parmesan-y (comparative more Parmesan-y, superlative most Parmesan-y)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of parmesany.
    • Stella Parmesan / $6.49 per pound / First off, every taster was taken aback by the aroma, which was described as “burnt,” “like fresh-baked bread,” “a tiny bit fishy,” like “fried chicken,” “smoky,” and “meaty.” Comments on flavor were just as colorful: “Smoky, flare flavor,” “strange pork-like...1999 October 31, “Tasting Parmesan Cheese”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Lifeline” section, page 23
    • Manchego cheese is a scrumtabulous hard goat’s cheese from the Picos region of north-west Spain. It’s sort of Parmesan-y in taste and texture.2010 September 12, Susan Jane Murray, “Eats Shoots and Leaves: Worth a Fig”, in Sunday Independent, volume 105, number 37, Dublin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41, column 4

Forms of parmesan-y

comparativemore parmesan-y
superlativemost parmesan-y
comparativemore Parmesan-y
superlativemost Parmesan-y

Origin of parmesan-y

From Parmesan + -y.

Questions about parmesan-y

What is parmesan-y the alternative form of?
Parmesan-y is the alternative form of parmesany.
What part of speech is parmesan-y?
Parmesan-y is an adjective.

Words near parmesan-y in the dictionary

  1. Parmentiers
  2. Parmer
  3. Parmer County
  4. Parmers
  5. parmesan
  6. parmesan-y
  7. parmesaned
  8. parmesans
  9. parmesany
  10. Parmese
  11. Parmeter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parmesan-y (page history and authors); Parmesan-y (page history and authors); parmesany (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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