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Meaning of "dunce's cap" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DUNCE'S CAP

dunce's cap  [ˈdʌnsɪz kæp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUNCE'S CAP

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Dunce's cap is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DUNCE'S CAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dunce cap

A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap, or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat, formerly used to bring about a change of mind via focusing energy into the brain, something like a sorcerer's or witch's hat. In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to schoolchildren to wear. Duns Scotus was the originator of the instrument. Frequently the 'dunce' was made to stand in the corner, facing the wall. Depending on the teacher, he might have to stand for as long as half an hour. The hope was that no one would want to be labeled the "dunce" in the class, even for a short period of time, and would thus avoid misbehavior. Examples of behavior which could warrant the dunce cap included throwing spitballs, passing notes, or pulling of hair. Class clowns were frequently admonished with the dunce cap. In modern pedagogy dunce caps are extremely rare. Although seemingly intended to punish the student with the lowest academic performance in the class, such a use could hardly have been very successful, as pure punishment is incapable of increasing intelligence.

Definition of dunce's cap in the English dictionary

The definition of dunce's cap in the dictionary is a conical paper hat, formerly placed on the head of a dull child at school.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUNCE'S CAP


ASCAP
ˈæskæp
blackcap
ˈblækˌkæp
cap
kæp
Capp
kæp
ettercap
ˈɛtəˌkæp
handicap
ˈhændɪˌkæp
hubcap
ˈhʌbˌkæp
icecap
ˈaɪsˌkæp
kneecap
ˈniːˌkæp
madcap
ˈmædˌkæp
Mencap
ˈmɛnkæp
microcap
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkæp
midcap
ˈmɪdˈkæp
nightcap
ˈnaɪtˌkæp
recap
ˈriːˌkæp
redcap
ˈrɛdˌkæp
snowcap
ˈsnəʊˌkæp
toecap
ˈtəʊˌkæp
uncap
ʌnˈkæp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUNCE'S CAP

dunce
dunce cap
duncedom
duncelike
duncery
dunch
duncical
duncish
duncishly
Dundalk
Dundee
Dundee cake
dunder

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUNCE'S CAP

baseball cap
black cap
cradle cap
crown cap
distributor cap
feather in one´s cap
filler cap
fool´s cap
Juliet cap
lens cap
overseas cap
put on one´s thinking cap
radiator cap
screw cap
skull cap
sports cap
stocking cap
swimming cap
thinking cap
watch cap

Synonyms and antonyms of dunce's cap in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dunce's cap» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUNCE'S CAP

Find out the translation of dunce's cap to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dunce's cap from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dunce's cap» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

傻瓜帽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gorra de burro
570 millions of speakers

English

dunce´s cap
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुंद की टोपी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غطاء غبي ل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

крышка колпака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cap de burro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডুনস এর টুপি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le bonnet de cancre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Topi duncan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Narrenkappe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

劣等生のキャップ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무지 렁이 의 모자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tutup dunce
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mũ lừa bằng giấy của
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாளத்தின் தொப்பி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डोना च्या कॅप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dunce´s kap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

berretto somaro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

w nieuk cap
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кришка ковпака
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

capac dunce lui
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καπάκι ηλίθιου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

domkop se cap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Dummerkåpan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

narreluen
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUNCE'S CAP»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUNCE'S CAP» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNCE'S CAP»

Discover the use of dunce's cap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dunce's cap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Origami Kit For Dummies
Here's a design of mine inspired by my friend Rachel Katz, with an origami 'D' to go with the dunce's cap. You're not supposed to use glue in origami, so you need to rub both the cap and the D onto your hair to create sufficient static electricity ...
Nick Robinson, 2011
2
Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share ...
Proverbs 29:25 During the Cultural Revolution Christians were often forced to parade in public wearing a large, cone-shaped dunce's cap with their crimes written on it. These hats were often three feet tall and were very heavy as they were ...
Paul Hattaway, 2005
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Fingering Netsukes: Selected Papers from the First ...
The derisive title applies even more suitably to Jocelin, and the spire, as it grows, takes on the shape of a dunce's cap (119), a "wooden dunce's cap" (159), which becomes almost complete after the capstone has been placed. A dunce's cap ...
Frédéric Regard, 1995
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Theory of Production
We thus get a sort of triangular 'dunce's cap' form as shown in Figure (7d.l). This is the substitution region in three factors under the pari-passu law. In this 'dunce's cap', and only here, all three marginal elasticities are non-negative.
R. Frisch, 1964
5
Aliens and Man: A Synopsis of Facts and Beliefs
Mythology is treated like a little elementary school child made to sit in the back of the room wearing a dunce's cap and admonished to “stay quiet.” The message from our ancient literature has been rendered mute; the point of view it espouses  ...
Jerome A. Kroth, Jerry Kroth, 2010
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The End of the World Book: A Novel
Some of my best memories of childhood involve standing in the corner of a classroom, between two blackboards, wearing a dunce's cap. These caps were made out of white construction paper, which was thick but relatively fragile. You had to ...
Alistair McCartney, 2008
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Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
A dunce's cap”; “2. The device of a 'fool's cap' used as a watermark for paper”; “3. A long folio writing- or printing-paper, varying in size.” The Wrst sense of the word “foolscap” is self-explanatory, but for the second, and by metonymy the third, ...
Kevin McLaughlin, 2011
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Monsieur Cadichon: Memoirs of a Donkey
(You know,a “dunce's cap”isknown in France, most offensively, asa“donkey's bonnet”, andeven has donkey's ears... as thoughalldonkeys are dunces!) Wellthen,when there wassilence once more, the ringmaster again called on Mirliflore.
Stephanie Smee, Comtesse de Segur, 2013
9
East Lynne
Her headdress cannot be described; it was like nothing in the fashion-book or out of it: some might have called it a turban,1 some a night-cap, and some might have thought it was taken from a model of the dunce's cap and bells2 in the parish ...
Ellen Wood, Andrew Maunder, 2000
10
Tales of the Chesapeake
exclaimed Beeckman; "'tis a dunce's cap!" "Dunder and blitzen!" swore Peter Alrichs, "hast thou lost all our provision and made fools of us, too?" They struck the dunce's cap off Nanking's head with their staves, and threw their beer in his face.
George Alfred Townsend, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUNCE'S CAP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dunce's cap is used in the context of the following news items.
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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»
2
Time to put lost Scottish children's books back on the shelf
"A child is punished with a birch rod, and a dunce's cap; and a boy who is older with a stick, or a whip; but when schooldays are passed, there ... «Herald Scotland, Jun 15»
3
Tipp's summer at the crossroads
This column suspects anyone looking to confer a dunce's cap on Jimmy Barry-Murphy probably needs a little educating themselves, but there's ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
4
First CEO goes next close the store
Any new CEO who did not come to that conclusion would put an immediate question mark above his or her head, if not a Dunce's cap. «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
5
Doing Jimnastics around Bass Lake
Then, when you're wearing the dunce's cap because you screwed up, how to save your car and what's left of your dignity. SCEPTICISM SIXED. «Wheels24, May 15»
6
Scotland invited to make its bloody mind up
... Miliband looked good eating a bacon sandwich and I'd pay to be put in a dunce's cap and be made to stand in the corner by Leanne Wood, ... «NewsBiscuit, May 15»
7
Letter: The role of the EU is all about control
Anyone who has not yet grasped this fact deserves to wear the dunce's cap. " — Valéry Giscard, President of the EU Convention,. The EU ... «shropshirestar.com, May 15»
8
Juventus 2-1 Real Madrid: Player Ratings From an Atmospheric …
... night, either side of Cristiano Ronaldo's first half leveller. But if Tevez was the undoubted top boy, who must don the dreaded dunce's cap? «90min, May 15»
9
Gang-gang. Mud-Encrusted Artefacts
So if the current dig on Springbank Island unearths a slate or dunce's cap, they will know why." But at Wednesday's briefing at the ANU Dr ... «The Canberra Times, Apr 15»
10
Bloodborne Brutalises the PlayStation Store Charts in North America …
... the top of the PlayStation Classics list in North America, while Canis Canem Edit – better known as Bully – put on the dunce's cap in Europe. «Push Square, Apr 15»

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