"schoolmarm" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to describe a strict or serious female schoolteacher. For example, "The schoolmarm seemed to have a special knack for keeping all the students in line."
Free schools multiplied in the land, and the schoolmarm revealed all her immemorial preciosity.
Nurse Mildred Ratched, brilliantly played by Louise Fletcher as a blankly implacable schoolmarm, argues back.
She added: "Another time, a retired BBC mogul explained, with a hand on my thigh, that I should stick to producing because women's voices were either 'childish, vampy, mumsy or schoolmarm'".
It pains the schoolmarm in me to think that children will no longer be forced to memorize the rhyme about "i before e," but I'm willing to make the sacrifice.
Joan Acocella, in her essay on English usage, cites a common view that H. W. Fowler, the author of "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," was some sort of moralistic schoolmarm ("The English Wars," May 14th).
The rhythms are by the Revolutionaries, a studio band, whose drummer, Sly Dunbar, is one of the main architects of reggae's blend of medicine-ball weight and schoolmarm restraint.
He really was a little man: she glared down at him like a schoolmarm scolding a guilty child.
She wears her auburn hair pinned back by a barrette, in demure schoolmarm fashion; in her choice of clothes, too, she favors an unprepossessing look — a carapace of ordinariness, forged out of her Illinois childhood and "the ability of Midwesterners to pulverize people who seem slightly precocious," she explained.
By insisting on contemplative absorption and civic conscience, Storr is a bit of a schoolmarm, demanding dignity of irresponsible pupils.
My instinct would have been to pull these culprits aside and scold them like a schoolmarm.
