单词 | dunce |
释义 | dunce n. a person slow at learning; a dullard. Phrases and idioms dunce's cap a paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace. Etymology: John Duns Scotus, scholastic theologian d. 1308, whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-c. humanists and reformers as enemies of learning |
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