duncical

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John; do you call these same folks illiterate lobcocks and duncical doddipolls?

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  1. Like a dunce. The most dull and duncicall commissioner. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VIII. ii. 26. I have no patience with the foolish duncical dog. Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, VIII. 100.

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  • John; do you call these same folks illiterate lobcocks and duncical doddipolls? —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • What makes, in many countries, the people rebellious and depraved, pages saucy and mischievous, students sottish and duncical? —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
  • 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. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • Now, though we have in our mother-tongue several excellent works in verse and prose, and, heaven be praised! but little left of the trash and trumpery stuff of those duncical mumblers of ave-maries and the barbarous foregoing Gothic age, I have made bold to choose to chirrup and warble my plain ditty, or, as they say, to whistle like a goose among the swans, rather than be thought deaf among so many pretty poets and eloquent orators. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
  • à Becket, almost prompting him with the very words, but without penetrating through the duncical denseness. —  The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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  1. Formerly also duncicall, dunsical, dunstical; from dunce + -ic-al.
 

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