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词汇 schoolmarm
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Definition of schoolmarm in English:

schoolmarm

noun ˈskuːlmɑːmˈskulˌmɑ(r)m
North American
  • A schoolmistress (typically used with reference to a woman regarded as prim, strict, and brisk in manner)

    〈主美〉女教师(常用来指古板、严格和干练的女人)

    I gave an exasperated schoolmarm's laugh
    as modifier a schoolmarm hairstyle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms.
    • The schoolmarm changes her profession and becomes an outlaw, called Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
    • The problem with me is that when I talk about my mission, I sound deadly serious because I'm a former schoolmarm.
    • Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
    • But now she was standing behind the bench, looking down at me in a pose that was part schoolmarm and part Southern hanging judge.
    • Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all.
    • A follow-up commercial had a gray-bunned schoolmarm firing off a letter about the grammatical goof, only to be challenged with the jingle, ‘Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?’
    • This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end.
    • So did my New England Yankee public schoolmarms, but they and their policies have passed out of the culture and even the law.
    • It was an ice cream float gone guileful, a schoolmarm with a swagger.
    • The schoolmarm buried within me is clamouring to get out.
    Synonyms
    educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, mistress, governess, educationalist, educationist

Derivatives

  • schoolmarmish

  • adjectiveˈskuːlmɑːmɪʃˈskulˌmɑ(r)mɪʃ
    North American
    • The delivery may be faintly schoolmarmish, but the substance is unexpectedly funky.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But despite the pertinence and importance of Dawn's critique, her schoolmarmish, finger-wagging tone may put people off.
      • The vice president, alas, will no doubt sound just as schoolmarmish when getting in his licks as when he's disgorging numbers.
      • She combines the schoolmarmish authority of Barbara Woodhouse with the diva presence of Barbra Streisand.
      • To some people, I suspect, she came to embody the negative image of the copy editor: punctilious, schoolmarmish and blue-stockinged.

Definition of schoolmarm in US English:

schoolmarm

nounˈsko͞olˌmä(r)mˈskulˌmɑ(r)m
North American
  • A schoolmistress (typically used with reference to a woman regarded as prim, strict, and brisk in manner)

    〈主美〉女教师(常用来指古板、严格和干练的女人)

    I gave an exasperated schoolmarm's laugh
    as modifier a schoolmarm hairstyle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The schoolmarm buried within me is clamouring to get out.
    • So did my New England Yankee public schoolmarms, but they and their policies have passed out of the culture and even the law.
    • The schoolmarm changes her profession and becomes an outlaw, called Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
    • This credo of a particular order of comparative literature is like the hush of the schoolmarm enforcing a designed consensus at lesson's end.
    • A follow-up commercial had a gray-bunned schoolmarm firing off a letter about the grammatical goof, only to be challenged with the jingle, ‘Whaddaya want, good grammar or good taste?’
    • It was an ice cream float gone guileful, a schoolmarm with a swagger.
    • The problem with me is that when I talk about my mission, I sound deadly serious because I'm a former schoolmarm.
    • Many black teachers were themselves once students of the typical Yankee schoolmarms.
    • Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all.
    • But now she was standing behind the bench, looking down at me in a pose that was part schoolmarm and part Southern hanging judge.
    • Maybe the cowboy in us prefers the saloon tart to the civilizing schoolmarm.
    Synonyms
    educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, mistress, governess, educationalist, educationist
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