Schoolmarm Definition

sko͝olmärm
schoolmarms
noun
A woman schoolteacher.
Webster's New World
A woman teacher, especially one who is regarded as strict or old-fashioned.
American Heritage
Any person whose attitudes and behavior resemble those often attributed to schoolmarms, as pedantry, priggishness, or prudishness.
Webster's New World
A person, male or female, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times (as strict adherence to arbitrary rules, is strict on those who don't comply to those rules, etc.)
Wiktionary
(forestry) A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Schoolmarm

Noun

Singular:
schoolmarm
Plural:
schoolmarms

Origin of Schoolmarm

  • school dialectal marm (variant of ma'am)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From school +"Ž marm.

    From Wiktionary

Schoolmarm Sentence Examples

  • Miss Wyatt found herself thinking thoughts unbecoming for a schoolmarm.

  • Equal parts of schoolmarm and vixen play out in button-up Oxford shirts and four-inch Versace heels.

  • Claire tried to muster a schoolmarm firmness that didn't work.

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Words Starting With

SSCSCH

Words Ending With

MRMARM

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