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swot

UK/swɒt/ US/swɑt/ uncommon informal slang uk
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

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verb

1.

study intensively, as before an exam

  • “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”
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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.

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