dunce cap

English

A child wearing a dunce cap.

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