单词 | school-marming |
释义 | school-marmingn. Originally U.S. The occupation or profession of a schoolmarm; the action of working as a schoolmarm. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > school-teaching schoolteaching1585 pedagogy1623 pedagogism1642 schoolkeeping1651 pedagoguing1804 schoolmastering1822 schooling1837 pedagoguery1857 school-marming1881 1881 A. D. Mayo Talks with Teachers xxiv. 118 Why all this pother about the ‘higher education’ of a generation ago, with a turn at schoolma'aming in a famous ‘female academy’, to graduate a farmer's wife at the end. 1917 Alumni Q. Feb. 213/1 Lillian Griffin writes eight pages about her schoolma'aming in Salem. 1994 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 34 The four professions available to women in the old west were Marriage, School-Marming, Prostitution, and Old Biddyhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1881 |
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