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schoolmarm

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈskulˌmɑɹm/Part of speech nounSorted achlmmoorsStarts with SEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

Word origin

From school + marm (“madam”).

Used in a sentence

  • The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.
  • Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?
  • His brother Thomas, impaled upon the "schoolmarm tree," had opened his mouth to cry but snow and wind hurled back the words into his throat so that nothing emerges but white froth.

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