Meanings
nounMiss Fidditch (plural Miss Fidditches)
plural Miss Fidditches
- derogatoryA pedantic, prescriptivist language teacher.
When one considers such a resolution coming from the collective Miss Fidditches of the English profession, one's first reaction is likely to be, You've come a long way, Baby.
1980, Grover Hudson, Linguistics and the University Education, page 35
Origin
Introduced by Martin Joos in The Five Clocks (1967).
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