Definitions
study intensively, as before an exam
Word origin
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Used in a sentence
“Are you going to swot at it all the evening?”
“He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.”
“On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Study hard”4 letters
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