English Explanatory Dictionary

Miss Fidditch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pedantic, prescriptivist language teacher.

Word forms

Miss Fidditch Miss Fidditches

Etymology

Introduced by Martin Joos in The Five Clocks (1967).

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