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Definition of Dunce
1. Noun. A stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.
Generic synonyms: Dolt, Dullard, Pillock, Poor Fish, Pudden-head, Pudding Head, Stupe, Stupid, Stupid Person
Definition of Dunce
1. n. One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Definition of Dunce
1. Noun. One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunce
1. a stupid person [n -S] : DUNCICAL, DUNCISH [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunce
Literary usage of Dunce
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"We have set dunce in Bocardo and have utterly banished him Oxford for ever, with
all his blind glosses. . . . The second time we came to New College after ..."
2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"Lord Loughborough, when he had become a great dunce- man, gave the following
account of this inspection:—"I took op at once a great contempt for the said ..."
3. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"To say of a lawyer that "he is a dunce, and will got little by the Law," is
SLANDER; for " 'dunce,' in common intendment and speech, is taken for one of ..."
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