martinet:
(plural: ‘martinets‘ — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a martinet demanding order
a person who maintains strict discipline, especially in the military forces;
a person who follows and expects/demands others to follow rules and regulations strictly,
a martinet (a strict police officer)
My neighbour is recently retired from the army, and so behaves like a typical martinet.
An army drill master is supposed to be a martinet who must discipline hundreds of young recruits.
As politics is a slippery field, the martinets in politics are bound to lose their popularity with the masses and with their comrades or to change according to the political system of their times.
Most students generally think that their teachers are all martinets who make them slave day in and day out on their assignments but never appreciate their creative work.
Note 2: ‘Martinet’, also called ‘French martinet’, is also used to refer to a kind of whip (flogger) with several tails/lashes that is used to punish/thrash people. For an article that explains how this word is used in this context, please click here.
