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What (who) is dunce - definition
A PERSON CONSIDERED INCAPABLE OF LEARNING
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dunce
(dunces)
If you say that someone is a dunce, you think they are rather stupid because they find it difficult or impossible to learn what someone is trying to teach them.
Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages.
N-COUNT [disapproval]
dunce
n.
Simpleton, fool, dolt, ignoramus, witling, wiseacre, blockhead, block, numskull, dullard, thickhead, thick-skull, dunderhead, dunderpate, clodpoll, clodpate, beetle-head, bull-head, dull-head, addle-head, logger-head, chuckle-head, jolt-head, lack-brain, shallow-brain, moon-calf, lackwit, halfwit, oaf, changeling, booby, noodle, spooney, tony, nincompoop (colloq.), ninny, ninnyhammer, nonny, gaby, flat, sawney, driveller, noddy, natural, innocent, lout, stick, ass, jackass, donkey, owl, goose, coot, loon, calf, non-compos, stupid fellow, silly fellow.
Dunce
·noun One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Wikipedia
Dunce
Dunce is a mild insult in English meaning "a person who is slow at learning or stupid". The etymology given by Richard Stanyhurst is that the word is derived from the name of the Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus.
Examples of use of dunce
1. Nu Labour‘s Education, education, education strategy needs a re–think or should it be Dunce, dunce, dunce. – Alex, Lancashire, UK It will be brilliant for schools, pupils and industry if this method works.
2. His schoolmates remembered him as a snappy dresser, but a dunce in class.
3. Again, I can only apologise for being quite the dunce.
4. The minister in question has the reputation of being a chronic dunce.
5. Bush himself plays off his reputation as a dunce and his penchant for mangling English.