schoolteacherish

[ skool-tee-cher-ish ]

adjective

, Disparaging.

1. showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolteacherish¹

First recorded in 1925–30; schoolteacher + -ish ¹

Example Sentences

Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles.

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Dry, schoolteacherish Dr. Eric Eustace Williams, 45, Trinidad's Chief Minister and political boss, did nothing to discourage this belief.

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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.

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Characteristics: slow, poor speaker; once radical, now moderate; humorless and schoolteacherish; dependable party man; has curbed a once copious taste for beer.

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No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar.

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