schoolmarm
英 ['skuːlmɑːm]
美
- n. 女教师（等于schoolma’am）；装出教师派头的人；女学究
英英释义
- 1. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
中文词源
schoolmarm 古板的女教师
来自 school ma'am 或 school madam 的口语词。
英文词源
- schoolmarm (n.)
- also school-marm, "female school teacher," 1834, American English colloquial, in countrified humor writing of "Major Jack Downing" of Maine (Seba Smith); variant of school-ma'am (1828), American English, from school (n.1) + ma'am. See R. Used figuratively from 1887 in reference to patronizing and priggish instruction.
词态变化
形容词: schoolmarmish;