dunce

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unintelligent person.
    — When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

词形变化

dunces plural

词源

1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus "dunce" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any person deemed stupid.
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