swot

• swat

From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /swɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /swɑt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /swɔt/

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• Homophone: swat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

swot (third-person singular simple present swots, present participle swotting, simple past and past participle swotted)

1. (intransitive, slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on").

   Synonym: cram

   You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.

• hit the books

swot (plural swots)

1. (slang, British) One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 23:

     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.

   • 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.

2. (slang, British) Work.
3. (slang, British) Vigorous study at an educational institution.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• swotty

• OTWs, Stow, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, stow, tows, twos, wost, wots

• swoot

From Old Frisian swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart. Cognates include German schwarz and West Frisian swart.

• IPA^(key): /svɔt/
• Hyphenation: swot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

swot (masculine swotten, feminine, plural or definite swotte, comparative swotter, superlative swotst)

1. black

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “swot”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN