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Schoolmarm

noun
1.
A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict).  Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress.





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"Schoolmarm" Quotes from Famous Books



... received that rebuke with a meekness that indicated a decided change of heart. "I reckon me and Otie and Dolph have been acting out what you might call pretty pussylaminous, as I heard a schoolmarm say once," confessed the skipper, struggling with the big word. "But we three ain't as young as we was once, and I'll leave it to you, sir, if this wasn't something that nobody had ever ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day


Words linked to "Schoolmarm" :   mistress, schoolteacher, schoolmistress, school teacher


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