dunce
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When the team spurred the flies to start making the nanobody against Dunce, levels of the protein plummeted and the insects became dumber—they had a harder time learning to avoid the odor.
From Science Magazine • May 10, 2018
When I'm introduced to a Dinky or a Dunce, or read about people called Bing and Bong, it seems almost normal People here often have the same Christian name as their parents.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2011
Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some Congressmen dubbed the idea "Dunce Pack," and became even more skeptical when it was revealed that three of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed the scheme.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was a Dunce myself wunce, spechally at spelling, and that's how I was cured.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 by Various
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