
dunce
/dʌns/
a person who is slow at learning
dunce in a sentence
“The teacher unfairly labeled him a dunce.”
Origin of dunce
Named after John Duns Scotus, 13th-century scholar whose followers resisted Renaissance ideas

/dʌns/
a person who is slow at learning
“The teacher unfairly labeled him a dunce.”
Named after John Duns Scotus, 13th-century scholar whose followers resisted Renaissance ideas