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dunce
(dunces) If you say that someone is a dunce, you think they are rather stupid because they find it difficult or impossible to learn what someone is trying to teach them. Michael may have been a dunce at mathematics, but he was gifted at languages. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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   noun  Etymology: John Duns Scotus, whose once accepted writings were ridiculed in the 16th century  Date: 1570 a slow-witted or stupid person ...
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  n. a person slow at learning; a dullard. Phrases and idioms dunce's cap a paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace. Etymology: John Duns Scotus, scholastic theologian d. 1308, whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-c. humanists and reformers as enemies of learning ...
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  1. тупица, болван, остолоп ...
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  noun болван, тупица; неуспевающий ученик - dunces cap Syn: see blockhead ...
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  ~ n old-fashioned someone who is slow at learning things  (the dunce of the class) ...
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  - 1577, from earlier Duns disciple "follower of John Duns Scotus" (c. 1265-1308), Scot. scholar of philosophy and theology supposed to have been born at Duns in Berwickshire. By 16c., humanist reaction against medieval theology singled him out as the type of the hairsplitting scholastic. It became a term of reproach to more conservative philosophical opponents c.1527, later extended to any dull-witted student. ...
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