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schoolmarm

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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. Source: Internet

Journey back to 1853 where the schoolmarm will be ready to share the basics reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic, using materials of the time. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

“That left me to play the unenviable role,” she writes, “of spoilsport schoolmarm.” Source: Internet

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