Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Ireland, UK, informal)To study with effort or determination.

    Are you going to swot at it all the evening?

    büffeln, pauken

    зубри́тьzubrítʹ, вы́зубритьvýzubritʹ

    study intensively, as before an exam

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I'm a swot.

    Я ботан. — deniko

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  2. Anna is top of the class, but she's not a swot.

    deAnna ist die Klassenbeste, aber trotzdem keine Streberin. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
study hard:
Deutsch
study hard:

Origin

From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“per

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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Forms

swots, swotting, swotted, swotted
Base formswot · to swot
3rd person singularswots
Present participleswotting
Past simpleswotted
Past participleswotted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyswot
he, she, itswots

Past simpleLesson

all personsswotted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave swotted
he, she, ithas swotted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill swot

Synonyms

8 synonyms
cram
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedswot vac

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
swordB1swordfishswordsmansycamoresycophantsyllabary
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