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Topic: SCHOOL

Date: 1500-1600
Origin: John Duns Scotus (1266?-1308), Scottish religious thinker

dunce

 noun
     
dunce [countable] old-fashioned
SES someone who is slow at learning things:
the dunce of the class
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