[
UK
/swˈɒt/
]
VERB
-
study intensively, as before an exam
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
NOUN
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
How To Use swot In A Sentence
- What if I saw one of my old teachers and they found out their swotty student has amounted to naught?
- Serves me right for reading the Economist when I should have been swotting for my year 2 exams.
- The unloved school swots of the 20th century have blossomed into the alpha group of the 21st.
- Then he swotted and got his limited electrician's licence.
- One, who chose a college in northwest London to swot up on his GCSE science over Easter, found himself in a class of 30.
- Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
- Graham is still swotting up on bicycles and has got to the stage where he's constantly muttering technical-sounding buzzwords.
- I'm swotting at maths for the final examination.
- That is to say that I am at the school swot end of the driving spectrum. Times, Sunday Times
- Plus, 'awful swotter' is much better than the new 'bookworm'. Times, Sunday Times