Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a dunce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a dunce; duncish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Like a
dunce ;stupid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used informally) stupid
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Examples
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I have no patience with the foolish duncical dog — upon my soul, I have not!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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The devil be damned! cried Friar John; do you call these same folks illiterate lobcocks and duncical doddipolls?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For the duncical dog-leech was so selfish as to reserve them for his own dainty chops, and allowed his poor patients little more than the bare bones to pick, lest they should overload their squeamish stomachs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The devil be damned! cried Friar John; do you call these same folks illiterate lobcocks and duncical doddipolls?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For the duncical dog-leech was so selfish as to reserve them for his own dainty chops, and allowed his poor patients little more than the bare bones to pick, lest they should overload their squeamish stomachs.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The central inquisitor was trying to extract from him information about Becket, almost prompting him with the very words, but without penetrating through the duncical denseness.
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship Anthony Trollope 1848
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Here are the final 15 words competitors were asked to spell at the Camera Regional Spelling Bee. vicariously propellable surrealist cosmetician duncical plummet absolution comandante roodebok dachshund egregious archipelago
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Here are the final 15 words competitors were asked to spell at the Camera Regional Spelling Bee. vicariously propellable surrealist cosmetician duncical plummet absolution comandante roodebok dachshund egregious archipelago
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