DUNCE


Meaning of DUNCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ dʌns ]

n. a person slow at learning; a dullard. ødunce's cap a paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace. [John Duns Scotus, scholastic theologian d. 1308, whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-c. humanists and reformers as enemies of learning]

English main colloquial, spoken dictionary.      Английский основной разговорный словарь.