schoolmarmn.

Brit.

/ˈskuːlmɑːm/, U.S.

/ˈskulˌmɑ(r)m/

Forms:

α. 1800s– schoolma'am, 1900s– schoolma'm.

β. 1800s– schoolmarm.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: school n.¹, ma'am n.¹; school n.¹, marm n.

Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < school n.¹ + ma'am n.¹, and partly (in β. forms) < school n.¹ + marm n. Compare earlier schoolmistress n.¹

Originally U.S.

1. A woman who teaches in a school; a schoolmistress. Also in extended use: a person exhibiting the prim or didactic behaviour conventionally associated with a schoolmistress.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > schoolmistress

schoolmasterc1230

schoolmistress1335

mistress1340

schoolmarm1830

pedagoguette1960

miss1973

α.

1830 N. Ames Mariner's Sketches 262 The moment the alarm was given, ‘the school-ma'am is coming,’ the whole fleet immediately ‘bore up and made sail’ for the school-house.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. viii. 322 She is the best School-Ma'am I ever went to.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 174 The school-ma'am..walking thence to the..shanty, where she taught the young ones.

1924 A. E. Housman Let. 10 Mar. (1971) 218 A French school-ma'm wrote to me wanting to translate A Shropshire Lad.

1974 Times 14 Mar. 16/1 Mrs Margaret Thatcher..had the bearing of a school ma'am, an inability to suffer fools.

2004 Sporting Gun Mar. 114/2 The school ma'am had previously asked the estate to rid her of the rabbits she alleged were ‘causing havoc to the grass, flowers and vegetables’.

β. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lxiii. 208 The children were all washed and had their clean aprons on and their heads combed and were put under the care of the schoolmarm.1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Feb. 2/1 What will the ‘school marm’ say when she reads the following extract of a letter?1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull xi. 131 In this cheerful way the Schoolmarm runs on for over an hour, the sky looking very dark for poor Irene.1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 121 Now the funny thing is that nobody, not even the most conscientious father, ever questions the absolute rightness of these school-marms.1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. v. 90 Schoolmarms of both sexes behave like teachers in the living room and when reacting to novels or to public affairs.1990 J. Nance Final Approach xii. 201 He responded, somewhat embarrassed, feeling like a schoolboy caught ogling the disturbingly attractive schoolmarm.2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) vi. 86 Whatever you did, however neutral and pleasant you sounded, a female voice would always be categorized instantly as one of the following: mumsy tarty, Sloaney, dumb blonde or nagging schoolmarm.

2. North American slang (chiefly Forestry). A tree with a forked trunk. Also more fully schoolmarm tree.

ΚΠ

1912 Proc. Soc. Amer. Foresters 7 192 There are in almost every stand a certain number of injured or somewhat defective trees, such as ‘school-marms’, broken or bushy-topped trees, wind-shaken or lightning-cracked trees.

1939 H. O'Hagan Tay John 217 It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a ‘school-marm tree’.

1958 Scope Weekly 22 Oct. 7/1 The same situation may occur in felling a ‘schoolma'am’ which is essentially a forked tree, having two main trunks.

2009 G. Bowering in M. Leiren-Young Green Chain i. 7 You know what a School Marm is?.. It starts off with one trunk and breaks off to two trunks and goes up like a big letter Y.

Compounds

attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a schoolmarm (in sense 1)’.

ΚΠ

1843 Graham's Mag. June 325/1 ‘Boarding round, in the good old school-marm style,’ said Miss Hazleton, smiling.

1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 590/1 There is a school-ma'am basis in the character of certain of our women.

1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 383/1 T. S. Eliot ends with the schoolma'm conclusion that [etc.].

1965 New Statesman 7 May 719/1 The schoolma'am tone that husbands are quick to notice.

1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xii. 181 Less than the dust beneath his chariot wheels, if he remembered the quotation correctly from his school-marm days.

1999 N.Y. Mag. 4 Oct. 49/3 Thanks to A-list devotees like Cameron Diaz, Amber Valletta, and Julianne Moore, knitting is rapidly shedding its schoolmarm skin.

Derivatives

ˈschoolmarmish adj. reminiscent or characteristic of a schoolmarm (in sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adjective] > schoolmistress

schoolmarmish1872

schoolmistressy1903

1872 S. A. Emery Three Generations 107/1 ‘You should sit on a stool in the corner, and receive a sound whipping often as you deserve,’ returned his pretty interlocutor, with a pursed-up, school ma'amish air.

1921 R. Macaulay Dangerous Ages vii. 132 The W.E.A. was a practical body... Dowdy, schoolmarmish, extension-lecturish, it might be.

2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon i. 68 She is being schoolmarmish and patronizing but I also detect genuine affection.

ˈschoolmarmishly adv. in the manner of a schoolmarm (in sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adverb]

pedagogically1859

schoolmarmishly1919

1919 Washington Univ. Stud. Oct. 177 The sagacious principal of the modern school of poetry takes Professor Lowes a bit school-marmishly to task for his inadequate familiarity with the harvests of her fellow toilers.

2006 Independent (Nexis) 5 Feb. 16 He is seen on camera sweet-talking or schoolmarmishly cautioning his bears.

ˈschoolmarmy adj. = schoolmarmish adj.

ΚΠ

1873 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 Oct. There was the tall schoolmarmy Mrs. Livermore, the president, on the jump all the while, interrupting the ‘papers’ to request ‘those ladies to be immediately seated’.

1941 Scrutiny 10 115 The priggishness of the book [sc. Mansfield Park] is of a special kind, not just the occasional schoolmarmy effects of Sense and Sensibility.

2001 C. Benard Turning on Girls 256 She hopes that Cleo will not remember her that way, as a humorless tedious schoolmarmy nag.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

schoolmarmv.

Brit.

/ˈskuːlmɑːm/, U.S.

/ˈskulˌmɑ(r)m/

Forms: see schoolmarm n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: schoolmarm n.

Etymology: < schoolmarm n. Compare earlier schoolmaster v. 2.

Originally U.S.

1. transitive. With it. To work as a schoolmarm. Also intransitive. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1884 Oracle Mar. 38 Miss Grace Reed is school-ma'aming it at Bay City, teaching Latin in the High School.

1917 A. Garrison Revelations of Wife 7 Forget that scientific foolishness you absorbed when you were school ma'aming.

1973 Critique 15 37 School-marming it in Paris lacks both seriousness and future to a girl.

2. transitive. To treat (a person or thing) in the manner of a schoolmarm; to instruct or guide, esp. patronizingly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > treat haughtily or disdainfully [verb (transitive)]

condescendc1460

boya1625

patronize1820

schoolmarm1903

ritz1911

high-tone1917

upstage1921

high-hat1922

infantilize1931

society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach patronizingly

to breed (a person) low1673

schoolmarm1903

1903 Out West 18 635 He would Raise more Other Place than Chicks, if he waited for Instinct to schoolmarm his machine hatch.

1914 Cosmopolitan Sept. 458/1 Our trouble in America is that we're being schoolmarmed to death.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 234 The Radicals' itch to continue ‘school-marming’ the native populations of the former Boer territories.

2005 I. D. Yalom & M. Leszcz Theory & Pract. Group Psychotherapy (ed. 5) ii. 43 She..schoolmarmed him through the application form.

2006 OC (Calif.) Weekly (Nexis) 17 Mar. 20 Not only was she schoolmarming Kim, she was treating me as if I were her 18-year-old daughter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	schoolmarm
释义	schoolmarmn. Brit. /ˈskuːlmɑːm/, U.S. /ˈskulˌmɑ(r)m/ Forms: α. 1800s– schoolma'am, 1900s– schoolma'm. β. 1800s– schoolmarm. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: school n.¹, ma'am n.¹; school n.¹, marm n. Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < school n.¹ + ma'am n.¹, and partly (in β. forms) < school n.¹ + marm n. Compare earlier schoolmistress n.¹ Originally U.S. 1. A woman who teaches in a school; a schoolmistress. Also in extended use: a person exhibiting the prim or didactic behaviour conventionally associated with a schoolmistress. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > schoolmistress schoolmasterc1230 schoolmistress1335 mistress1340 schoolmarm1830 pedagoguette1960 miss1973 α. 1830 N. Ames Mariner's Sketches 262 The moment the alarm was given, ‘the school-ma'am is coming,’ the whole fleet immediately ‘bore up and made sail’ for the school-house. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. viii. 322 She is the best School-Ma'am I ever went to. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 174 The school-ma'am..walking thence to the..shanty, where she taught the young ones. 1924 A. E. Housman Let. 10 Mar. (1971) 218 A French school-ma'm wrote to me wanting to translate A Shropshire Lad. 1974 Times 14 Mar. 16/1 Mrs Margaret Thatcher..had the bearing of a school ma'am, an inability to suffer fools. 2004 Sporting Gun Mar. 114/2 The school ma'am had previously asked the estate to rid her of the rabbits she alleged were ‘causing havoc to the grass, flowers and vegetables’. β. 1833 S. Smith Life & Writings Major Jack Downing lxiii. 208 The children were all washed and had their clean aprons on and their heads combed and were put under the care of the schoolmarm.1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Feb. 2/1 What will the ‘school marm’ say when she reads the following extract of a letter?1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull xi. 131 In this cheerful way the Schoolmarm runs on for over an hour, the sky looking very dark for poor Irene.1930 D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles 121 Now the funny thing is that nobody, not even the most conscientious father, ever questions the absolute rightness of these school-marms.1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. v. 90 Schoolmarms of both sexes behave like teachers in the living room and when reacting to novels or to public affairs.1990 J. Nance Final Approach xii. 201 He responded, somewhat embarrassed, feeling like a schoolboy caught ogling the disturbingly attractive schoolmarm.2002 L. Purves Radio (2003) vi. 86 Whatever you did, however neutral and pleasant you sounded, a female voice would always be categorized instantly as one of the following: mumsy tarty, Sloaney, dumb blonde or nagging schoolmarm. 2. North American slang (chiefly Forestry). A tree with a forked trunk. Also more fully schoolmarm tree. ΚΠ 1912 Proc. Soc. Amer. Foresters 7 192 There are in almost every stand a certain number of injured or somewhat defective trees, such as ‘school-marms’, broken or bushy-topped trees, wind-shaken or lightning-cracked trees. 1939 H. O'Hagan Tay John 217 It was a pine. Long ago its trunk had been broken off by a slide or by the wind. Two stout branches had grown up instead, lightly tufted, to form a crotch. It was what the men there call a ‘school-marm tree’. 1958 Scope Weekly 22 Oct. 7/1 The same situation may occur in felling a ‘schoolma'am’ which is essentially a forked tree, having two main trunks. 2009 G. Bowering in M. Leiren-Young Green Chain i. 7 You know what a School Marm is?.. It starts off with one trunk and breaks off to two trunks and goes up like a big letter Y. Compounds attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or characteristic of a schoolmarm (in sense 1)’. ΚΠ 1843 Graham's Mag. June 325/1 ‘Boarding round, in the good old school-marm style,’ said Miss Hazleton, smiling. 1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 590/1 There is a school-ma'am basis in the character of certain of our women. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 383/1 T. S. Eliot ends with the schoolma'm conclusion that [etc.]. 1965 New Statesman 7 May 719/1 The schoolma'am tone that husbands are quick to notice. 1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin xii. 181 Less than the dust beneath his chariot wheels, if he remembered the quotation correctly from his school-marm days. 1999 N.Y. Mag. 4 Oct. 49/3 Thanks to A-list devotees like Cameron Diaz, Amber Valletta, and Julianne Moore, knitting is rapidly shedding its schoolmarm skin. Derivatives ˈschoolmarmish adj. reminiscent or characteristic of a schoolmarm (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adjective] > schoolmistress schoolmarmish1872 schoolmistressy1903 1872 S. A. Emery Three Generations 107/1 ‘You should sit on a stool in the corner, and receive a sound whipping often as you deserve,’ returned his pretty interlocutor, with a pursed-up, school ma'amish air. 1921 R. Macaulay Dangerous Ages vii. 132 The W.E.A. was a practical body... Dowdy, schoolmarmish, extension-lecturish, it might be. 2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon i. 68 She is being schoolmarmish and patronizing but I also detect genuine affection. ˈschoolmarmishly adv. in the manner of a schoolmarm (in sense 1). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adverb] pedagogically1859 schoolmarmishly1919 1919 Washington Univ. Stud. Oct. 177 The sagacious principal of the modern school of poetry takes Professor Lowes a bit school-marmishly to task for his inadequate familiarity with the harvests of her fellow toilers. 2006 Independent (Nexis) 5 Feb. 16 He is seen on camera sweet-talking or schoolmarmishly cautioning his bears. ˈschoolmarmy adj. = schoolmarmish adj. ΚΠ 1873 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 Oct. There was the tall schoolmarmy Mrs. Livermore, the president, on the jump all the while, interrupting the ‘papers’ to request ‘those ladies to be immediately seated’. 1941 Scrutiny 10 115 The priggishness of the book [sc. Mansfield Park] is of a special kind, not just the occasional schoolmarmy effects of Sense and Sensibility. 2001 C. Benard Turning on Girls 256 She hopes that Cleo will not remember her that way, as a humorless tedious schoolmarmy nag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). schoolmarmv. Brit. /ˈskuːlmɑːm/, U.S. /ˈskulˌmɑ(r)m/ Forms: see schoolmarm n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: schoolmarm n. Etymology: < schoolmarm n. Compare earlier schoolmaster v. 2. Originally U.S. 1. transitive. With it. To work as a schoolmarm. Also intransitive. Now rare. ΚΠ 1884 Oracle Mar. 38 Miss Grace Reed is school-ma'aming it at Bay City, teaching Latin in the High School. 1917 A. Garrison Revelations of Wife 7 Forget that scientific foolishness you absorbed when you were school ma'aming. 1973 Critique 15 37 School-marming it in Paris lacks both seriousness and future to a girl. 2. transitive. To treat (a person or thing) in the manner of a schoolmarm; to instruct or guide, esp. patronizingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > haughtiness or disdainfulness > treat haughtily or disdainfully [verb (transitive)] condescendc1460 boya1625 patronize1820 schoolmarm1903 ritz1911 high-tone1917 upstage1921 high-hat1922 infantilize1931 society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach patronizingly to breed (a person) low1673 schoolmarm1903 1903 Out West 18 635 He would Raise more Other Place than Chicks, if he waited for Instinct to schoolmarm his machine hatch. 1914 Cosmopolitan Sept. 458/1 Our trouble in America is that we're being schoolmarmed to death. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 234 The Radicals' itch to continue ‘school-marming’ the native populations of the former Boer territories. 2005 I. D. Yalom & M. Leszcz Theory & Pract. Group Psychotherapy (ed. 5) ii. 43 She..schoolmarmed him through the application form. 2006 OC (Calif.) Weekly (Nexis) 17 Mar. 20 Not only was she schoolmarming Kim, she was treating me as if I were her 18-year-old daughter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830v.1884
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