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单词 dunce's cap
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dunce's cap

(North American also dunce cap)
noun
A paper cone formerly put on the head of a dunce at school as a mark of disgrace.During their show they ham it up, quizzing the audience about what they've been reading, threatening to send hecklers to the corner with a dunce cap, chucking books pell-mell into the audience, etc....
  • We don't have to look too far away and not too far back in the past to find a prime example of fire placing the symbolic dunce cap on our heads and sending us to a corner of the forest to stew about how silly we've been made to look.
  • Put on the dunce cap Greg and go stand in the corner.
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