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25 words match “DUNCE”

DUNCE n.
other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.
DUNCEDOM n.
The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.
DUNCERY n.
Dullness; stupidity.
BOOBY n.
A dunce; a stupid fellow.
BUNGLER n.
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
BUZZARD n.
A blockhead; a dunce. It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. Goldsmith.
CHUCKLEHEAD n.
A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [Low] Knowles.
CITTERN-HEAD n.
Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion
DOLT n.
A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard. This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. Drayton.
DULLARD n.
A stupid person; a dunce. Shak. -- a.
DUNCICAL a.
Like a dunce; duncish. The most dull and duncical commissioner. Fuller.
DUNCISH a.
Somewhat like a dunce. [R.] -- Dun"cish*ness, n. [R.]
DUNDERHEAD n.
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
GABY n.
A simpleton; a dunce; a lout. [Colloq.]
GAWBY n.
A baby; a dunce. [Prov. Eng.]
GUMP n.
A dolt; a dunce. [Low.] Holloway.
HALF-WIT n.
A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.
IGNORAMUS n.
A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce. An ignoramus in place and power. South.
JOLTERHEAD; JOLTHEAD n.
A dunce; a blockhead. Sir T. North.
LOGGERHEAD n.
A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton.
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