parm

Shortening of parmigiana or parmesan.

parm (countable and uncountable, plural parms)

1. A dish served in the parmigiana style (combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before baking).
   • 2012, Mike Isabella, Mike Isabella's Crazy Good Italian:

     Everyone who's had my mother's eggplant parm has said, “This is awesome.”

   • 2013, Kathy Strahs, The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook:

     For this update on a chicken parm sandwich, I bread and sauté thin chicken breast cutlets and layer them with fresh basil, mozzarella cheese, and leftover spaghetti on garlic-buttered ciabatta.

   • 2023, Sohla El-Waylly, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook, page 170:

     This braised eggplant has all those savory parm-y flavors, but in an easy any-night form.

   chicken parm

2. Parmesan cheese.
   • 2020, Chelsey Hansen, Makin Cherry and Apple Pies Under the Land of the Living Skies:

     Go make some spaghetti for lunch n sprinkle on some parm

   • 2023, Luca Cesari, The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes:

     Once it's bubbling good and steady, grab some parm and pecorino, pop it all on your spaghetti.

   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 203:

     'There's parm in that bowl there,' Lady Darvish said.

• parma

• MRAP, PRAM, pram, ramp

From Proto-Finnic *parma, originally onomatopoetic. Cognate to Finnish paarma, Ingrian paarma. Possibly already from Proto-Finno-Ugric *parma: compare Eastern Mari пормо (pormo) and Erzya промо (promo), пуромо (puromo).

parm (genitive parmu, partitive parmu)

1. horsefly, breezefly, gadfly, forest fly (fly of the family Tabanidae)
2. (colloquial, figuratively) drunkard

From Proto-Finnic *parma, from Proto-Finno-Permic *parma. Cognates include Finnish paarma.

parm

1. gadfly