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   dunce

   /dʌns/

   noun

   • 1. a person who is slow at learning; a stupid person: "he was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school"

   Word Origin early 16th century: originally an epithet for a follower of John Duns Scotus (see Duns Scotus, John), whose followers were ridiculed by 16th-century humanists and reformers as enemies of learning.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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