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schoolmarm
[ skool-mahrm ]
noun
- a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.
schoolmarm
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noun
- a woman schoolteacher, esp when considered to be prim, prudish, or old-fashioned
- any woman considered to be prim, prudish, or old-fashioned
Derived Forms
- ˈ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ôËŒ³¾²¹°ù³¾¾±²õ³ó, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ²õ³¦³ó´Ç´Ç±ôm²¹°ù³¾î€…i²õ³ó adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of schoolmarm1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of schoolmarm1
Example Sentences
She earned her Oscars playing the unconventional schoolmarm in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie†and a brittle movie star in “California Suite†in the 1970s.
I raise these concerns about progressive babble not as some sort of fussy schoolmarm.
When observing public figures, there’s danger in scrutinizing off-the-cuff remarks, policing conversation like a schoolmarm.
But she is still a substitute teacher, squirming to be the best schoolmarm she can be.
Ms. Theurer, a deeply religious wife and grandmother with schoolmarm charm, was an unlikely pandemic czar, but she leaped into the role head-on.
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