About The Word Dunce
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Dunce
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What's The Definition Of Dunce?
[n] these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dunce: blockhead | bonehead | dunderhead | fuckhead | hammerhead | knucklehead | loggerhead | lunkhead | muttonhead | numskull | shithead Related Terms | Find terms related to Dunce: block | blockhead | Boeotian | bonehead | boob | booby | bufflehead | cabbagehead | chowderhead | chucklehead | chump | clod | clodpate | clodpoll | cluck | dabbler | dilettante | dimwit | dodo | dolt | dolthead | donkey | dope | drip | duffer | dullard | dullhead | dumb | dumb cluck | dumbbell | dummy | fool | gowk | greenhorn | greeny | ignoramus | illiterate | illiterati | jobbernowl | know-nothing | lackwit | lamebrain | lightweight | looby | loon | lowbrow | middlebrow | niais | nincompoop | ninny | ninnyhammer | nitwit | no scholar | noddy | puddinghead | put | stupid | tenderfoot | thickwit | unintelligentsia | witling Dunce In Webster's Dictionary \Dunce\, n. [From Joannes Duns Scotus, a schoolman called
the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308. Originally in the phrase
``a Duns man''. See Note below.]
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull
or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
I never knew this town without dunces of figure.
--Swift.
Note: The schoolmen were often called, after their great
leader Duns Scotus, Dunsmen or Duncemen. In the revival
of learning they were violently opposed to classical
studies; hence, the name of Dunce was applied with
scorn and contempt to an opposer of learning, or to one
slow at learning, a dullard.
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