Clues for the word "DUNCE"
We've had 77 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 130 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on December 09, 2025.
Definition of dunce
- n. - One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Referring Clues
- Numbskull
- Last in the class
- Cap wearer
- Chucklehead
- No Mensa member
- Kind of cap
- One wearing a conical cap
- Class underachiever
- Fool
- Nincompoop
- One who may be capped in a corner
- Corner chair occupant
- School fool
- One in a corner chair
- Blockhead
- Jerk
- Goose
- Ninny
- Knucklehead
- Conical-cap wearer
- Ignoramus
- Fool's-cap wearer
- Fool's cap wearer
- Class fool
- Conehead?
- Ding-a-ling
- Chuckle-head
- One with a conical cap
- One in the corner
- Simpleton
- Dolt
- Fellow in the corner
- Dimwit
- Foolish cap wearer
- Reluctant wearer of a cap
- Slow-witted student
- Unwanted type of cap
- Cone-hatted one
- Kid in the corner
- Hardly a Mensa member
- Bonehead
- No whiz kid, he
- Conehead
- Numskull
- Stupid person
- Moron
- Wearer of a conical hat
- Dummy
- Thickhead
- Pointy cap wearer
- Duffer
- Dullard
- Moron expected sandwiches, not cheese, to start with
- Not a great performer, but he has been capped!
- Though not much good, he has been capped
- Stupid pupil
- Slow learner
- Poor learner
- One who's bottom of the class?
- Finished with church, we hear - will he ever learn?
- Proverbially slow learner
- Stupid fellow caught hiding in a sand hill
- One who's been cornered?
- Dead relative left out, the fool
- Fool about, getting covered by mound of sand
- A fool to try to get money from church
- Poor student wearing a conical cap
- Bad scholar, but he may have been capped
- Wearer of a conical cap, once
- Dumbbell
- Classroom chucklehead
- Buffoon
- Airhead
- Idiot
- Ignorant person
- Foolish person
- One found around the corner?
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 06, 2024
- Daily Quick - November 16, 2024
- Daily American - October 21, 2024
- Daily American - October 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - September 20, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 14, 2024
- New York Times - July 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 31, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 23, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - January 03, 2024
- Daily Quick - December 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - June 21, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - December 13, 2022
- Daily Quick - November 16, 2022
- Daily American - October 21, 2022
- Daily American - October 11, 2022
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