Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a dunce; sottish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Somewhat like a dunce.
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- adjective Somewhat like a
dunce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used informally) stupid
Etymologies
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dunce + -ish
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Examples
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Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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