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Definition of Schoolmarm
1. Noun. A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict).
Generic synonyms: School Teacher, Schoolteacher
Definition of Schoolmarm
1. Noun. (US slang) A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe. ¹
2. Noun. 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.) ¹
3. Noun. A forestry term for a tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Schoolmarm
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schoolmarm
Literary usage of Schoolmarm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Just Talks on Common Themes by Arthur Gray Staples (1919)
"ON "LOVING THE schoolmarm" OU have been in love, but you never loved anyone as
you did a certain schoolmarm when you were a shock^haired, freckle-faced ..."
2. Half-hours in Southern History by John Lesslie Hall (1907)
"Our people in these years drank the cup of humiliation to its very dregs, the "wine
of astonishment" to its very bottom. VI The schoolmarm in Tradition ..."
3. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess by Emilie Ruete, Lionel Strachey (1907)
"... VERBAL TERM REPORTS— BRIBING THE schoolmarm—DEFECTS OF EUROPEAN EDUCATION—CIVILISATION
AND RELIGION SCHOOL is of small importance to the Oriental. ..."
4. The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister (1904)
"Baldy, yu' know, he can stay on a tame horse most as well as the schoolmarm.
But just you give him a pair of young knittin'-needles and see him make 'em ..."
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