ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DUNCE
From Dunses or Dunsmen, term of ridicule applied to the followers of John Duns Scotus, especially by 16th-century humanists.
3 QUOTES WITH «DUNCE»
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dunce.
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNCE»
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dunce in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dunce and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Night of the
Dunce: A Play
THE STORY: Roads End Branch of the public library is a decaying, ominous place, where no one comes to borrow books any more, despite the efforts of the staff to keep it a going concern.
The thirty-one fictions[']...economy is at once playful and finely controlled, reticent and suggestive.... Bundy is at her best tracing the persistence of desire with a mournful wit reminiscent of the best work of Lydia Davis.
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Education for Losers - Memoirs of a
Dunce
His wholly mistaken career choice brings him full circle to confront major indiscipline in state schools. Later on he escapes to the Middle East to work as a Tefler but this is hardly a bed of roses.
The boy above Newton having kicked him, the dunce showed his pluck by
challenging him to a fight, and beat him. Then he set to work with a will, and
determined also to vanquish his antagonist as a scholar, which hedid, rising to
the top of ...
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Advances in Pharmacology
distinct structural features of the catalytic site, which are presumably responsible
for these differences, remain to be determined, however. Defects in learning and
memory in dunce flies can be rescued by the expression of a mammalian PDE4 ...
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A New Book of the Dunciad:: Occasion'd by Mr. Warburton's ...
A New Book of *' Hail, hail, Saturnian days of lead restor'd, " Great Dunce the
second yields to Dunce the third : " Rejoice great Queen, for now thy foes are
flown, " Thy own Dunce reigns : the age is all thy own." IMITATION. Line 124. Tlry
own ...
William Dodd, William Warburton, 1750
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Environmental Ethics: The Big Questions
17. Is. the. Crown. of. Creation. a. Dunce. Cap? An earlier version of this paper
appeared in Catalyst: Healthy Living, Healthy Planet, vol. 26, no. 1 (January 2008
) (Salt Lake City: New Moon Press, Inc.). WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF MORAL ...
But other mutations are more informative, and none more so than dunce.
Normally, a male that has attempted to mate with a pregnant female, and has
been seriously rebuffed, will not attempt to mate with pregnant females again for
some time.
William R. Clark, Michael Grunstein, 2004
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Advances in Insect Physiology APL
This suppressor restores female fertility without affecting either the level of activity
or the thermolability of the form II enzyme (Salz et al., 1982; Salz, 1983). The
eflect of Su(fs) on the expression of the other dunce alleles is shown in Table 6.
Michael J. Berridge, J. E. Treherne, Sir Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, 1985
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Four Self-Help Classics
The brilliant Sheridan showed so little capacity as a boy that he was presented to
a tutor by his mother with the complimentary accompaniment that he was an
incorrigible dunce. Walter Scott was all but a dunce when a boy, always much ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUNCE»
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dunce is used in the context of the following news items.
HBO's raunchy, funny, '7 Days in Hell' teams Andy Samberg and Kit …
Poole, by contrast, is such a dunce that he can only remember one response to every question – "indubitably." Among the famous faces ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
Russians warn idiots not to take selfies
Another gasping dunce took a photo of themselves while climbing on a railway bridge, and came into contact with live electrical wires. «Bitterwallet, Jul 15»
The pop-up restaurant that turns school dinners into fine dining
Dunce's hats, blackboards and desks all contribute to the schoolday nostalgia. And don't worry if you've mislaid your stripy tie or outgrown your ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Fitzgerald: Bill Cosby missed chance to apologize
He even sat back and let Hillary look like a dunce, furiously attacking a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for spreading tales of her dearly beloved's ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
Politicole: What The Baha Mar Saga Reveals
When people were finally realising this project was the big dunce in the corner, and started speaking out accordingly, the government (both ... «Bahamas Tribune, Jul 15»
A weekly parenting column like no other
“Humblebrag” — use self-deprecation to mask an actual brag, like: “I am SUCH a dunce, I made a mistake on my five-year-old's Mensa ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
In rehearsal: American Idiot
What more can I do to secure impunity from those dunce accusations? Take a look at photographs from the rehearsal room of course. They'll ... «Official London Theatre, Jul 15»
Historical Society has new vision
There's even a dunce cap in the classroom. According to Wallace, kids sometimes come back with their parents and get excited about showing ... «Beloit Daily News, Jul 15»
Of Ancient Muslim Slavs and Imperial Roman Highways: Natterings …
Muslim villages with their tell-tale dunce's cap-topped minarets cling to the foot of the Rhodope, occasional shepherds tend their flocks, and on ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Letter: Glenbard West science center a lesson in ignorance
The rooftop garden on the new science center will be a “dunce cap” worn by both the building as well as every one of the village trustees and ... «Suburban Life Publications, Jul 15»
