dunce
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
Definition of dunce
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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An unintelligent person.
“When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
“[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!”
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Etymology
1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus "dunce" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any person deemed stupid.
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