schoolmarm
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noun
- Old-fashioned a woman schoolteacher
- Informal any person whose attitudes and behavior resemble those often attributed to schoolmarms, as pedantry, priggishness, or prudishness
See schoolmarm in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(sko͞olˈmärmˌ) also school·ma'am (-mämˌ, -mămˌ)
noun A woman teacher, especially one who is regarded as strict or old-fashioned.
Related Forms:
- schoolˈmarmˌish adjective
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