OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14194

dunce

/dʌns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tonto de capirote
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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