dunce
noun /dʌns/
/dʌns/
(old-fashioned)- a person, especially a child at school, who is stupid or slow to learn
Topics Personal qualitiesc2愚笨的人;(尤指)迟钝的学生 Collocations DictionaryDunce is used before these nouns:- cap
词源early 16th cent.: originally an epithet for a follower of John Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308), whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-cent. humanists and reformers as enemies of learning.