dunce
noun
a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt.
duncish
-
a word derived from
dunce.
Example Sentences
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Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
