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单词 schoolmarms
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schoolmarm

noun

school·​marm ˈskül-ˌmä(r)m How to pronounce schoolmarm (audio)
variants or schoolma'am
ˈskül-ˌmäm How to pronounce schoolmarm (audio)
-ˌmam
1
: a woman who is a schoolteacher especially in a rural or small-town school
2
: a person who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers (such as strict adherence to arbitrary rules)
schoolmarmish
ˈskül-ˌmä(r)-mish How to pronounce schoolmarm (audio)
adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In the music video, Gavin plays the titular cheerleader who is smitten with a girl in the program; meanwhile, Bridgers plays the pink-haired schoolmarm in charge, while popular gay comedian Caleb Hearon plays a conflicted gay coach. Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022 On hand to enforce the rules is an electronic schoolmarm called Lana, who resembles a Google Home under the influence of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Judy Berman, Time, 16 Apr. 2020 The October 2019 cover of Harper’s Bazaar featured Demi Moore dressed in Victorian schoolmarm wear, replete with knotted collar and wire-rimmed glasses. Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020 These disingenuous characterizations — the zealous youngster and the wise schoolmarm — are trite. Armond White, National Review, 20 Nov. 2019 All the the things people criticize her for — schoolmarm-ish, lecturing, dour, droning — are music to your ears. Jim Geraghty, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019 The sometimes austere looks at times summoned images or elements of puritans, nuns, and schoolmarms — all with a subversive fashion edge. Colleen Barry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019 At other times, Warren can summon a bit too fiercely — almost comically — her disapproving inner schoolmarm. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019 Her company doled out Fitbits — those digital schoolmarms that ceaselessly track their wearer’s every move — to teams of employees who competed against each other. Bina Venkataraman, Time, 23 Aug. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

school + marm, alteration of ma'am

First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined at sense 1

schoolmarms

noun

variants or schoolma'ams
plural of schoolmarm
as in teachers
US, old-fashioned a woman who teaches in a school in a small town or in the country In the movie, she plays a doting schoolmarm in colonial New England.

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