Panner
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who pans.
- 2 Misspelling of paneer (“Indian cheese”). alt-of, misspelling, uncountable
"Uma, a South Indian upper caste woman said of her six year old son Vijay: “[Vijay] will eat Indian food only if it is from the packages, so Kannan ([Uma’s] husband) and I[, Uma,] go every weekend to the Indian store and we stock up on palak panner, malai kofta, chola puri and all that. All North Indian food [Vijay] likes."
Example
More examples"Uma, a South Indian upper caste woman said of her six year old son Vijay: “[Vijay] will eat Indian food only if it is from the packages, so Kannan ([Uma’s] husband) and I[, Uma,] go every weekend to the Indian store and we stock up on palak panner, malai kofta, chola puri and all that. All North Indian food [Vijay] likes."
Etymology
From pan + -er.
Doubling the letter “n” when spelling paneer instead of doubling the letter “e”.