SCHOOLMARM
schoolmarm
Noun
- A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe.
- The schoolmarm, running the old west one-room school, is a stock character in western movies.
- A person, male or female, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times (as strict adherence to arbitrary rules, is strict on those who don't comply to those rules, etc.)
- A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
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