swot
verb (used with object)
swat.
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- a variation of swat.
swot
1 American
[swot]
/ swɒt /
verb (used with object)
swotted,
swotting
swot
2
American
[swot]
/ swɒt /
verb (used without object)
swotted,
swotting
noun
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swots
plural
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a student who studies assiduously, especially to the exclusion of other activities or interests; grind.
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hard study or hard work; concentrated effort.
swot
1
British
/ swɒt /
verb
noun
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Also called: swotter. a person who works or studies hard
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hard work or grind
SWOT
2
British
abbreviation
swot
3
British
/ swɒt /
verb
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Etymology
Origin of swot
First recorded in 1840–50; dialectal variant of sweat
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If you want to swot up a little more, check out the article we wrote just after PS5 system architect Mark Cerny gave his online developer talk in March.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
She calls herself a swot, which translates roughly to an overenthusiastic student.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
For all his brains and later academic renown, he was no swot: he started cramming five days before finals, from an undemanding textbook nicknamed “Economics for the Half-witted Child”.
From Economist ● Aug. 13, 2015
So if you want to get the scoop on friends and colleagues, swot up on this list…
From Forbes ● Jun. 5, 2015
I have often heard it said:—"I never could do swot well, Sir;" and "these dull fellows, the swots, can talk of nothing but triangles and equations."
From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various
However, she added, a long-awaited new satellite known to researchers as SWOT, is poised to make these kinds of ocean phenomena vastly easier to observe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
The rocket's payload, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, or SWOT, incorporates advanced microwave radar technology to collect high-definition measurements of oceans, lakes, reservoirs and rivers over 90% of the globe.
From Reuters ● Dec. 16, 2022
The data gathered by SWOT, he said, will “heavily advance our understanding of not just climate change, but also climate variability, and how that affects droughts and things like monsoons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
And besides, some critics add, there is little useful to learn from the results, since it is parents alone that encourage swots.
From Economist ● Dec. 6, 2016
Two current swots offer little fun, less profit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Swot.—I have often heard military men talk of swot, meaning thereby mathematics; and persons eminent in that science are termed "good swots."
From Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 by Various
This was a God-send to the "gentlemen cadets," wishing to achieve a notoriety as wits and slangsters; and mathematics generally ever after became swot, and mathematicians swots.
From Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various
"That's the worst of clever little swots," said McTurk, addressing the gas.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
Wearing a grey hoodie sweatshirt with 'Fear' written upside down Malinin symbolically swotted away comments which represented the negative impact of social media.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
“I’m a Liberal Democrat,” replies Mr Scragg—which Mr Johnson, who was supposed to have swotted up on this winnable Lib Dem marginal on the train, should have known.
From Economist ● Apr. 23, 2015
For my ancient language I swotted up Latin in six weeks and squeaked through the test, which was written-only.
From Time ● Nov. 28, 2012
Could it be that he has simply swotted his way to sophistication in a bid to please his wife?
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2011
"As a matter of fact, I got the British Consul to send me a local directory and swotted it."
From The Book of All-Power by Edgar Wallace
We caught up with Peters in her childhood home - where she was swotting for a driving test - to explore her story so far.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2021
When not giving advice they are visiting jails, swotting up on immigration law and monitoring social media for alerts about raids.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2017
The broadcast took six months to negotiate and fell through on several occasions, before the presenter Kirsty Young travelled to Naypyidaw in Burma after "swotting for this interview like I was doing an exam".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 27, 2013
While I was swotting up, I had encountered the intriguing suggestion that Yazidis are forbidden to eat lettuce.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2010
He thought it "uncommonly hard" that he should have to spend the whole summer "swotting."
From This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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