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