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Definition of Duncish
1. Adjective. (used informally) stupid.
Similar to: Stupid
Definition of Duncish
1. a. Somewhat like a dunce.
Definition of Duncish
1. Adjective. Somewhat like a dunce. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Duncish
1. dunce [adj] - See also: dunce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duncish
Literary usage of Duncish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton (1883)
"... for indeed (if we will candidly understand it) all else is presupposed in that
Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of is duncish. ..."
2. The Whole Works of John Bunyan by John Bunyan, George Offor (1862)
"... and must be charged with doing wrong judgment, and so things that become not
his heavenly Majesty ; but against this duncish sophistry* we set Paul and ..."
3. Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship: And the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, Archibald MacMechan (1901)
"Horace Walpole is no dunce, not a fibre of him is duncish." E.-Corr. I, 205.
121 26 talk of faculties. See 122 12 n. 122 12 All that a man does. ..."
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