diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb
index 6fdf6d810f..505455fe54 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/duplicable.rb
@@ -28,23 +28,32 @@ def duplicable?
   end
 end
 
-class Method
-  # Methods are not duplicable:
-  #
-  #   method(:puts).duplicable? # => false
-  #   method(:puts).dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for Method
-  def duplicable?
-    false
-  end
+methods_are_duplicable = begin
+  Object.instance_method(:duplicable?).dup
+  true
+rescue TypeError
+  false
 end
 
-class UnboundMethod
-  # Unbound methods are not duplicable:
-  #
-  #   method(:puts).unbind.duplicable? # => false
-  #   method(:puts).unbind.dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for UnboundMethod
-  def duplicable?
-    false
+unless methods_are_duplicable
+  class Method
+    # Methods are not duplicable:
+    #
+    #   method(:puts).duplicable? # => false
+    #   method(:puts).dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for Method
+    def duplicable?
+      false
+    end
+  end
+
+  class UnboundMethod
+    # Unbound methods are not duplicable:
+    #
+    #   method(:puts).unbind.duplicable? # => false
+    #   method(:puts).unbind.dup         # => TypeError: allocator undefined for UnboundMethod
+    def duplicable?
+      false
+    end
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/duplicable_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/duplicable_test.rb
index 07d9a3df4a..58de295719 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/duplicable_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/object/duplicable_test.rb
@@ -6,18 +6,26 @@
 require "active_support/core_ext/numeric/time"
 
 class DuplicableTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
-  RAISE_DUP = [method(:puts), method(:puts).unbind, Class.new.include(Singleton).instance]
-  ALLOW_DUP = ["1", "symbol_from_string".to_sym, Object.new, /foo/, [], {}, Time.now, Class.new, Module.new, BigDecimal("4.56"), nil, false, true, 1, 2.3, Complex(1), Rational(1)]
+  OBJECTS = [
+     method(:puts), method(:puts).unbind, Class.new.include(Singleton).instance,
+    "1", "symbol_from_string".to_sym, Object.new, /foo/, [], {}, Time.now, Class.new,
+    Module.new, BigDecimal("4.56"), nil, false, true, 1, 2.3, Complex(1), Rational(1),
+  ]
 
-  def test_duplicable
-    RAISE_DUP.each do |v|
-      assert_not v.duplicable?, "#{ v.inspect } should not be duplicable"
-      assert_raises(TypeError, v.class.name) { v.dup }
-    end
+  OBJECTS.each do |v|
+    test "#{v.class}#duplicable? matches #{v.class}#dup behavior" do
+      duplicable = begin
+        v.dup
+        true
+      rescue TypeError
+        false
+      end
 
-    ALLOW_DUP.each do |v|
-      assert_predicate v, :duplicable?, "#{ v.class } should be duplicable"
-      assert_nothing_raised { v.dup }
+      if duplicable
+        assert_predicate v, :duplicable?
+      else
+        assert_not_predicate v, :duplicable?
+      end
     end
   end
 end