Adjective: schoolmarmish
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more schoolmarmish |
| Superlative | most schoolmarmish |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like schoolmarmish
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English schoolmarm
3. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
4. Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *-isk
6. Old English -isΔ
7. Middle English -ish
8. English -ish
9. English schoolmarmish
10. From schoolmarm + -ish.