单词 | schoolmistress |
释义 | schoolmistressn.1 Now somewhat archaic. A woman who teaches in a school. In early use also: †a governess (obsolete). Cf. mistress n. 8, schoolmaster n.1 1. Also figurative.Sometimes implying the prim or didactic behaviour conventionally associated with a female schoolteacher. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher mastereOE schoolmistress1335 mistress1340 sophistera1387 sophist1542 schoolman1712 society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > governess mistressc1330 schoolmistress1335 governoressc1422 tutrice1490 tutrix1515 gouvernante1579 tutress1599 tutoress1614 directrice1631 duenna1641 under-governess1669 governess1673 conductress1760 Mam'sellec1794 directress1801 nursery governess1814 mademoiselle1861 finishing governess1862 fräulein1883 govy1899 miss1924 society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > schoolmistress schoolmasterc1230 schoolmistress1335 mistress1340 schoolmarm1830 pedagoguette1960 miss1973 1335 in H. E. Salter Mediaeval Arch. Univ. Oxf. (1921) II. 207 (MED) Margreta Skolmaystres. a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Trin. Cambr.) l. 137 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 85 (MED) Scolemaystres. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. viii. 4 For she [sc. wisdom] is ye scolemastresse of ye nurtoure of God, & ye choser out of his workes. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 537 b Al that they [sc. nuns] were commaunded to do of their scholemastresses and gouernesses. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xii. 59 Phenicia was the schoolmistresse of Grecia, and first taught her her alphabet. 1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 42 She have the spirit in her of twenty School-mistresses, looking with her Pigs-eyes so narrowly to her charge. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vii. 116 But Nature it seems hath not been so expert a School-mistress. 1791 Act 31 Geo. III c. 32 §16 A Roman Catholick School-master or School-mistress. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 66 She a school-mistress, a keeper of silence, a maintainer of discipline. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 48 She..had more of the air of a schoolmistress than mistress of the Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters. 1907 R. Muther Hist. Mod. Painting (rev. ed.) I. ii. 42 The truth and naturalness of English ideas were introduced as models, and England became in her whole culture the schoolmistress of the Continent. 1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 250 Miss J. Austen is the opposite of the cult-figure. She would have made a lamentable schoolmistress. 2006 Eastern Daily Press (Norwich) (Nexis) 16 Sept. I can almost hear the resounding cry of ‘hear, hear’ from retired majors and former schoolmistresses. Derivatives ˈschoolmistressy adj. characteristic of or resembling a schoolmistress, esp. in being prim or sensible. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adjective] > schoolmistress schoolmarmish1872 schoolmistressy1903 1903 C. Smedley April Princess x. 183 ‘The Knight has not been jealous,’ said the Princess quickly. ‘He only worries because he's my cousin. Relations are always school-mistressy.’ a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 339 In that grating voice, she gave her clear, schoolmistressy, common-sense view of the White Paper. 1999 New Yorker 12 Apr. 106/2 Her advice varies from the schoolmistressy (‘Small boys in fast food restaurants may keep their caps on’), through the practical..to the frankly unnecessary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). schoolmistressn.2 schoolmistress fish n. rare a black and yellow shoaling fish found in the Caribbean, perhaps the sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis, or other damselfish; cf. schoolmaster n.2 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > miscellaneous type of bluefish1622 parrotfish1656 emperor1666 blue hound-fish1672 green fish1743 reef fish1872 blue1885 flagtail1905 basslet1928 schoolmistress fish1929 1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica 22 The black and yellow school-mistress fish. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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