schoolmarm

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Beyoncé has never marketed herself as a schoolmarm, but the singer is getting racier, edgier-and not in a sophisticated way.

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  • Unlike the wife of Knobby Leonard, Mrs. Crowder was an ocean-going schoolmarm, aboard the well-traveled and often-departed ship of good Captain McGillicuddy. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • When he was running IRD, one of the complaints of the officers under him was that he acted like a schoolmarm. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • I said he was welcome to it because I felt like a schoolmarm trying to separate two brats during recess. —  AHMM,July-August2008
  • One minute she was shaking her head at him and frowning like an old maid schoolmarm, and the next she was looking like she was going to start crying or kiss him. —  Garwood, Julie - Prince Charming
  • Dressed like a schoolmarm, her face and posture might have suited a crown. —  The Art of Detection
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  1. school1 + dialectal marm (variant of ma'am).
 

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/ˈskulmɑm/
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