Meaning & use
Schoolmarm
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A schoolteacher, especially a woman, stereotyped as strict, old-fashioned, or prim.
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He complained that the new manager acted like a schoolmarm, correcting everyone's grammar.
The film portrayed the frontier teacher as a stern schoolmarm.
A note on using this word
'Marm' is a dialect variant of 'ma'am'; the term can carry a slightly dated or mocking tone today.
Words with a similar meaning
disciplinarian
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