schoolmarm

English - Turkish

Definition of schoolmarm in English Turkish dictionary: {i} öğretmen; {i} sert hoca; {i} bayan öğretmen

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Definition of schoolmarm in English English dictionary: A person, male or female, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times (as strict adherence to arbitrary rules, is strict on those who don't comply to those rules, etc.); A forestry term for a tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree; A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe
The schoolmarm, running the old west one-room school, is a stock character in western movies.; a woman who is considered to be old-fashioned, strict, and easily shocked (school + marm (19-21 centuries) (from ma'am)); a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict); A person, male or female, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times (as strict adherence to arbitrary rules, is strict on those who dont comply to those rules, etc.); {i} female schoolteacher, female instructor (esp. a strict one); schoolma'am
schoolmarmish: Resembling a schoolmarm
schoolmarmish: {s} behaving like a schoolmarm; having characteristics of a schoolmarm
schoolmarms: plural of schoolmarm

schoolmarm

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school·marm

[ -"mä(r)m ] (noun.) 1831. From school +‎ marm.

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