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schoolma'am

[skool-mam, -mahm]

school·ma'am

[skool-mam, -mahm]

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; school1 + ma'am
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Schoolma'am is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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schoolma'am

noun
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm
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