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- noun Plural form of
marm .
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Examples
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Back when men were young and dead and women were marms and tarts.
Arnie Reisman: We Are All Nevadans Arnie Reisman 2012
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Back when men were young and dead and women were marms and tarts.
Arnie Reisman: We Are All Nevadans Arnie Reisman 2012
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LadyLydiaSpeaks said ... regarding the comment about school teachers in dresses: women, especially single young women,, were generally chosen as school marms in the community schools, and for centuries they traditionally wore long dresses.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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I won't add further to the huzzahs of others, or echo the schoolmarmish injunctions to follow words with deeds (apologies in advance to all marms!).
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Ur just jellus that yew didn't git to be one of thems fishful thanking marms, huh?
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Someone should make a YouTube video about the craigslist and strip club raids, lacing in a few good laughs about the Viaduct "indecision" and "nanny-state" school marms running the circus show that is the City of Seattle.
Sound Politics: The Underwhelming Priorities Of The Seattle City Council 2007
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Bubba now i know why that old ithaca dollar grade single barrel is so dark where ye grip it its that dang wd40 asoaking in probably aint worth a dollar any moreI noticed that one of my old elementar school marms wrote in must have been mrs Tackett.
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(You seem to think those words have synonymous meanings – let one of the many school marms who litter this site explain the difference ….).
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For every macho cowboy "contractor" let loose in the Middle East, shouldn't we be giving matching funds to a fleet of school marms and lady doctors too?
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And I HATE the spelling police – I myself make sooo many errors typing that Lora and the rest of the school marms could run out of red ink.
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