Definition of Dunce

Dunce

One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

Dunce Quotations

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
Alexander Pope

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
Lisa Marie Presley

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Dunce Translations

dunce in Swedish is dumbom, dumhuvud

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