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
Example Sentences
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It turns out that she is currently in the middle of re-reading Rivals to swot up ahead of more interviews about the show.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
She calls herself a swot, which translates roughly to an overenthusiastic student.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
I wasn’t a swot exactly, but I loved to learn and was never without a book.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 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
"I never saw anyone swot like you, Laura," said Lottie Lowman at one of the monitresses' meetings.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
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
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
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
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
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
That adjustment came after a defeat by Arsenal in September, and the Belgian underlined its wisdom by scoring one of the goals of the season when Chelsea swotted aside the same opponents in February.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2017
“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
"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
The ginger tom officially belongs to the deputy librarian at the Marshall Library of Economics, and "tea with Jasper" events have proved popular with those wanting a break from swotting.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2018
Yet Hodgson has not been swotting up a great deal on the opposition.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2014
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
Jessie won't mind swotting if she has a chance to shine.
From The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil
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