dunce

Cooking rice on the stovetop can make you feel like a dunce in the kitchen.
Best rice cooker for perfect rice every time|Cemile Kavountzis|October 13, 2021|Popular-Science
This time, Super Duper Loser Kevin Dopart suggested perhaps a dunce cap, or a jester’s hat, with the title “Clowning Achievement.”
Style Conversational Week 1413: Our new not-so-big top -- the Clowning Achievement trophy|Pat Myers|December 3, 2020|Washington Post
But such branding ostracizes that behavior, like the film should be forced to wear a dunce cap and publicly shamed in the corner.
Guardians of the Galaxy’s Chris Pratt Is the Everydude Superhero|Kevin Fallon|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The penalty for a miss is the same as in the sprint (Dunce Lap).
Why the Biathlon Makes Bonds of Us All|Brett Singer|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Like the pursuit, there are four stops for shooting, but in lieu of a Dunce Lap each miss adds a full minute to your total time.
Why the Biathlon Makes Bonds of Us All|Brett Singer|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you miss you have to hit the 150m penalty loop, or as I like to call it, the Dunce Lap.
Why the Biathlon Makes Bonds of Us All|Brett Singer|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are two shooting stops, one prone, one standing, Dunce Lap penalty for misses.
Why the Biathlon Makes Bonds of Us All|Brett Singer|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pedantic, unimaginative and presumptuous, Theobald was the logical choice for a Dunce King in 1728.
A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope|Colley Cibber
Tyndale himself, who invented such beautiful words in his translations, was the first to use the word dunce.
Stories That Words Tell Us|Elizabeth O'Neill
I'm afraid from this you'll guess that I must have been a dunce at school myself.
The Nicest Girl in the School|Angela Brazil
Tutors I could get by shoals, but a fellow-dunce is inestimable.'
The Heir of Redclyffe|Charlotte M. Yonge
He had no mercy on a fool or a dunce, and turned in disgust from those who loved trifles and lies.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI|John Lord

British Dictionary definitions for dunce

dunce

/ (dʌns) /

noun

a person who is stupid or slow to learn

Derived forms of dunce

duncelike, adjective

Word Origin for dunce

C16: from Dunses or Dunsmen, term of ridicule applied to the followers of John Duns Scotus, especially by 16th-century humanists

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