Definition of "swot" []

• To study with effort or determination. (verb)
• To study something with effort or determination (swot up on). (verb)
• One who swots (noun)
• Work (noun)
• Vigorous study at an educational institution (noun)

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• "Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible"
• "Now I heard John Pienaar try and spin it that Ed Balls actually said "swot" and I hear that John Pienaar later changed that to "so weak"."
• "I was stoned by a gang of cretins and suckers-up to cretins for being a "swot"."