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Dunce vs Sumph - What's the difference?

dunce | sumph |

As nouns the difference between dunce and sumph

is that dunce is one backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt while sumph is (scotland|northern england) a dunce; a blockhead.

dunce

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

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    sumph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A dunce; a blockhead.
  • *1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 312:
  • *:His daughter, that sumph that was Mistress Bruce, fair jumped as she heard the bang of the door [...].