different between schoolmarm vs schoolmarmish

English

From school +? marm (“madam”).

schoolmarm (plural schoolmarms)

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

schoolmarm +? -ish

schoolmarmish (comparative more schoolmarmish, superlative most schoolmarmish)

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