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schoolmarm

[ skool-mahrm ]

noun

Older Use.
  1. a female schoolteacher, especially of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish.


schoolmarm

/ 藞蝉办耻藧濒藢尘蓱藧尘 /

noun

  1. a woman schoolteacher, esp when considered to be prim, prudish, or old-fashioned
  2. any woman considered to be prim, prudish, or old-fashioned
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞蝉肠丑辞辞濒藢尘补谤尘颈蝉丑, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 蝉肠丑辞辞濒顎僲补谤尘顎卛蝉丑 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of schoolmarm1

1835鈥45, Americanism; variant of schoolma'am
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of schoolmarm1

C19: from school 1+ marm, variant of ma'am . See madam
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She earned her Oscars playing the unconventional schoolmarm in 鈥淭he Prime of Miss Jean Brodie鈥 and a brittle movie star in 鈥淐alifornia Suite鈥 in the 1970s.

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I raise these concerns about progressive babble not as some sort of fussy schoolmarm.

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When observing public figures, there鈥檚 danger in scrutinizing off-the-cuff remarks, policing conversation like a schoolmarm.

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But she is still a substitute teacher, squirming to be the best schoolmarm she can be.

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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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