Definitions for dunce

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Spelling: [duhns]
IPA: /dʌns/

Dunce is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in dunce (cdenu).

Definitions for dunce

noun

  1. a dull-witted, stupid, or ignorant person; dolt.

Origin of dunce

1520-30; after John Duns Scotus, whose writings were attacked by the humanists as foolish

Examples for dunce

He was long described by his Spartan mother, who thought him a dunce, as only ‘food for powder.’

The world's a father to a dunce unknown, And much he thrives, for Dulness!

The penalty for a miss is the same as in the sprint (dunce Lap).

There are two shooting stops, one prone, one standing, dunce Lap penalty for misses.

After all, Harry was no dunce, but he was not yet convinced.

Fowell learnt very little at school, and was regarded as a dunce and an idler.

A fool, a dunce, or a bad man does harm and not good in the world.

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.

If you miss you have to hit the 150m penalty loop, or as I like to call it, the dunce Lap.

But such branding ostracizes that behavior, like the film should be forced to wear a dunce cap and publicly shamed in the corner.

Word Value for dunce
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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