[skool-mahrm] 
| a female schoolteacher, esp. of the old-time country school type, popularly held to be strict and priggish. |
| school·marm (skōōl'märm') n. A woman teacher, especially one who is regarded as strict or old-fashioned. [school1 + dialectal marm (variant of ma'am).] school'marm'ish adj. |
