dunce cap

English

Alternative forms

• dunce's cap (traditionally the usual British English form)

Noun

dunce cap (plural dunce caps)

1. A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
2. The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.

Synonyms

• (both senses): dunce hat

Translations

Conical hat

Arabic: قبعَة الأغبياء Esperanto: azenoĉapo Estonian: tobumüts Finnish: aasinhattu French: bonnet d’âne (fr) m German: Eselsmütze f, Eselskappe f Korean: 던스 캡 (deonseu kaep) Norwegian: dumrianhatt Russian: дура́цкий колпа́к m (duráckij kolpák) Swedish: dumstrut (sv) c

Further reading

• dunce cap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia