English Dictionary

schoolmarm

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskulˌmɑɹm/

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語 広義

(US, slang) A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict. / (by extension) Someone who acts like a schoolmarm; a person acting harsh and stern.

日本語の意味

（米国スラング）古風で非常に厳格な女性教師 / （比喩的に）厳格で厳しい態度の人物、融通のきかない人物

Everyone avoided debating politics in class when the schoolmarm walked into the room.

その厳格で古風な女性教師が教室に入ると、誰も授業中に政治について議論しようとしなかった。

意味（1）

(US, slang) A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.

The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.

意味（2）

(by extension) Someone who acts like a schoolmarm; a person acting harsh and stern.

Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?

意味（3）

(forestry) A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.

His brother Thomas, impaled upon the schoolmarm tree, had opened his mouth to cry but snow and wind hurled back the words into his throat so that nothing emerges but white froth.

schoolmarms （ plural ）