A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
Pedantic.
Someone who acts like a schoolmarm; a person acting harsh and stern.
A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.
A tree with two or more trunks; a forked tree.
To discipline in the manner of a schoolmarm; to harshly reprimand or chide.