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Examples
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Traditionally, teachers are given "teachery" magazines to read.
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I'm very slowly getting used to being called "Ms. Britts", and I find myself thinking teachery-type thoughts.
eleven eleven tragic_elegance 2009
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One LARGE this thing is big pink tote bag to carry all your teachery supplies.
Back-to-School Musings and a Teacher Themed Giveaway! « Classroom Confessions 2009
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A teachery voice began to ask, in a coaxing, answer-pulling tone, “Now, where do we see the shape of the square on the bus?”
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A teachery voice began to ask, in a coaxing, answer-pulling tone, “Now, where do we see the shape of the square on the bus?”
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Oh, I presume the name taken by itself is a good old-fashioned one, but in combination with McMurtry it has such an old-maidy, school-teachery sound that I have been compelled to live up to it.
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill Margaret Vandercook
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I cannot think of him as ever becoming teachery, with a high-pitched voice and a hysteric manner.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson
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"Come out of there," cried Old Barney, in a screechery, teachery voice, but you just bet the little bunny didn't.
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog David Magie Cory 1919
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Lite was on guard; he would not lose his caution just because Art seemed friendly and helpfully inclined, and had meant no teachery over in that queer restaurant.
Jean of the Lazy A 1915
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My intentions were good, but I suppose I made my speech in a very superior and school-teachery sort of way.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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