| 单词 | dunce chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdunce chair a. attributive or in the genitive, designating an item of furniture on which a schoolchild is forced to sit as a punishment or mark of disgrace (see note at sense 3), as dunce block, dunce chair, dunce seat, dunce stool. Now typically as part of a figurative expression indicating any punishment for some (usually minor) mistake or misbehaviour.Attributive use is usual in U.S. English, genitive use more common in British English. ΚΠ 1823 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Nov. 573 He, set perhaps upon the dunce's stool, Crown'd with the paper night-cap of the fool,..Now saunter'd o'er the green. 1869 Coll. Temperance Dialogues 47 Go sit on the dunce stool, you blockhead! 1894 Refractionist July 64 Many a child is relegated to the dunce's block simply on account of imperfect sight. 1941 R. R. Marett Jerseyman at Oxf. iv. 49 Her favourite punishment was to make one stand on the Dunce's Chair in the window. 1968 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 28 Dec. 9/2 He says he feels sorry for the kids who are in the ‘dunce seats’. 1996 Independent (Nexis) 27 Oct. (The Critics section) 12 He was given a very public finger-wagging... You felt he would have been dispatched to a dunce's stool in the corner if he hadn't been sitting there already. 2014 @WolfyFancyLads 23 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Someone slap him and send him to the dunce stool. < as lemmas |
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