To study intensively, as before an exam.
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.
1 He is, in other words, that person mocked by Johnson: a swot .
2 He was the clear winner, beating loyal swot Hermione Granger into second place.
3 You fellows swot , and I sit in the orchestra chairs.
4 Even though he was a bit of a swot and not much good at games.
5 Second and most importantly, I'm going to swot up on all the world history I can.
6 Perhaps it is time for Kevin Keegan to swot up on some of Lombardi's famed one-liners.
7 He's an awful chap to make you swot .
8 The five-day trip gives you the chance to swot up on the history of a fascinating city.
9 Asked how many people were likely to fail the higher standard, Dutton suggests they'll swot up and pass:
10 As he had done in his swot spot in boxing, Morrie made us think and behave like winners.
11 It would be an awful swot to keep it up-lookingout the words and all that.)
12 I shall spend my life looking after the property, and there's no particular need to swot for that.
13 Because Adams minor (another swot ) says it doesn't.
14 That riesling is the class swot .
15 He is the kind of person that Mr Johnson likes to describe as "a girly swot " .
16 No wonder the guests in the green room before the show swot over notes like students before an exam.
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