[dʌns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who is slow at learning; a stupid person
(e.g: he was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school)


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Origin:
early 16th century: originally an epithet for a follower of John Duns Scotus (see Duns Scotus, John), whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-century humanists and reformers as enemies of learning