schoolmarm

Meaning

Noun

• A woman who is a teacher, especially a teacher in a schoolhouse; may carry the connotation she is severe and/or a spinster.
• A person, of any gender, who exhibits characteristics attributed to schoolteachers of the old times, such as strict enforcement of arbitrary rules.
• A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.

Origin

• From school + marm.