the dunce of the class

  • 1dunce — [dʌns] n old fashioned [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: John Duns Scotus (1266? 1308), Scottish religious thinker] someone who is slow at learning things ▪ the dunce of the class …

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  • 2Dunce cap — For the topological space, see Dunce hat (topology). A young boy wearing a dunce cap in class, from a staged photo c.1906 A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce s cap, or dunce s hat, is a pointed hat. In popular culture, it is… …

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  • 3The Distrest Poet — Infobox Painting title=The Distrest Poet artist=William Hogarth year=c.1736 type=Oil on canvas height=65.9 width=79.1 height inch=36 width inch =31⅛ museum=Birmingham Museum Art Gallery city=Birmingham The Distrest Poet is an oil painting… …

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  • 4dunce — noun (C) old fashioned someone who is slow at learning things: the dunce of the class …

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  • 5The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …

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  • 6dunce cap — noun a cone shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils • Syn: ↑dunce s cap, ↑fool s cap • Hypernyms: ↑hat, ↑chapeau, ↑lid * * * noun or …

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  • 7dunce's cap — noun a cone shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils • Syn: ↑dunce cap, ↑fool s cap • Hypernyms: ↑hat, ↑chapeau, ↑lid * * * noun see dunce cap * * * …

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  • 8Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman — …

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  • 9Jack and the Beanstalk — For other uses, see Jack and the Beanstalk (disambiguation). Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Illustration by Arthur Rackham from a 1918 English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel Jack and the Beanstalk is a folktale said by… …

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  • 10duncedom — dunceˈdom noun The class of dunces • • • Main Entry: ↑dunce …

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