swot

See also: SWOT

English

Alternative forms

• swat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swɒt/
• IPA^(key): /swɑt/

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• Homophone: swat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

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

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

   Synonym: cram

Derived terms

• swot up on
• swot vac

 

Translations

study hard

• Armenian: կրծել (hy) (krcel)
• Bulgarian: зубря (bg) (zubrja)
• Catalan: empollar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死記／死记 (zh) (sǐjì), 死记 (zh) (sǐjì)

• Dutch: blokken (nl)
• Finnish: ahtaa päähänsä, päntätä (fi)
• French: bûcher (fr), bosser (fr), potasser (fr), bachoter (fr), se bourrer le crâne
• Galician: chapar
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: büffeln (de), pauken (de)
• Hindi: रटना (hi) (raṭnā), रट्टा मारना m (raṭṭā mārnā)
• Hungarian: magol (hu), bemagol (hu)
• Italian: sgobbare
• Japanese: がり勉する (gariben suru)
• Russian: зубри́ть (ru) impf (zubrítʹ), вы́зубрить (ru) pf (výzubritʹ)
• Spanish: empollar (es) (colloquial)
• Turkish: ineklemek (tr), hatmetmek (tr), hafızlamak

Noun

swot (plural swots)

1. (slang, British) One who swots.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 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.

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

one who swots

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死記者／死记者, 死记者 (sǐjìzhě)

• Dutch: blokker (nl) m
• French: (colloquial) bûcheur (fr) m, bosseur (fr) m, bachoteur (fr)
• Galician: chapón m
• German: Büffler m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 我利勉, がり勉 (gariben)
• Manx: ard-studeyr m
• Polish: kujon (pl) m
• Russian: зубри́ла (ru) m or f (zubríla)
• Spanish: empollón m, empollona (es) f (Spain, derogatory), chapón m, chapona f (Spain, derogatory), mateo (es) m (Chile, colloquial)

work

• French: boulot (fr) m, (slang) tapin (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вка́лывание n (vkályvanije) (colloquial)

vigorous study

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死記／死记 (zh) (sǐjì), 死记 (zh) (sǐjì)

• Dutch: blok (nl) m
• French: (slang) bachot (fr) m, bachotage (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Büffeln (de) n, Pauken (de) n
• Japanese: がり勉 (gariben)
• Russian: зубрёжка (ru) f (zubrjóžka)

Anagrams

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