schoolteacherish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of schoolteacherish
First recorded in 1925–30; schoolteacher + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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Told by friends that his familiar rimless glasses made him appear "schoolteacherish," he showed up on the Senate floor in a new pair of dark horn rims.
From Time Magazine Archive
Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer.
From Time Magazine Archive
No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frau Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, German-born Dane, beat England's schoolteacherish Dorothy Round, while Poland's jolly Jadwiga Jedrzejowska jiggled baseline drives into corners where England's pretty Kay Stammers could not reach them, 6-2, 6-2.
From Time Magazine Archive
The schoolteacherish woman began jabbering excitedly; she ran through about a paragraph of what was pure gobbledegook to Benson, before the man with the arrogant face and the jewelled zipper-pull broke in on her.
From Hunter Patrol by Piper, H. Beam
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