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schoolmarm definition

☆ school·marm (sko̵̅o̅l′märm′, -mäm′)

noun

  1. Old-fashioned a woman schoolteacher
  2. Informal any person whose attitudes and behavior resemble those often attributed to schoolmarms, as pedantry, priggishness, or prudishness

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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