swot
noun
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L328931 on Wikidata ↗verb
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L333225 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /swɒt/ / /swɑt/ / /swɔt/
noun
Etymology: From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
- One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
“He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.”
“The popular science bit goes like this. Your brain has two hemispheres, left and right. The left is the organised swot who likes bright light, keeps his bedroom tidy and can tolerate sums. Your right hemisphere is your brain on drugs: the long-haired, creative type you don't bring home to mother.”
- Work.
“All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.”
- Vigorous study at an educational institution.
verb
Etymology: From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
- To study with effort or determination.
“Are you going to swot at it all the evening?”