schoolmarm
Speech parts
1. schoolmarm - Noun
2. schoolmarm - Verb
Meaning
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
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Me, scrubbed clean, hair pulled back in a schoolmarm bun, wearing an innocent flowered sundress with a Peter Pan collar, trying to look not guilty, with my hard-edged poker face dry as the desert.
Journey back to 1853 where the schoolmarm will be ready to share the basics reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic, using materials of the time.
The mother of the heroine in The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm.
“That left me to play the unenviable role,” she writes, “of spoilsport schoolmarm.”