Noun every time he begged off a night at the pub—saying he had to study—his mates teased him for being a swot
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Verb
Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018 Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Word History
Etymology
Noun
English dialect, sweat, from Middle English swot, from Old English swāt — more at sweat