fool's cap

1. 1.

   a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils

   Synonymsdunce capdunce's cap

   Broaderhat

Questions about fool's cap

What does fool's cap mean?

fool's cap means "a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils".

What is another word for fool's cap?

Close synonyms include dunce cap, dunce's cap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fool's cap a common word?

fool's cap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.