swot(n = noun.person) dweeb, grind, nerd, wonk - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious; Array
is a kind of assimilator, learner, scholar
Derived form verb swot1
swot(v = verb.cognition) bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"
is one way to hit the books, study
Derived form noun swot1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something PP
swot, v. & n. Brit. colloq.
--v. (swotted, swotting)
1 intr. study assiduously.
2 tr. (often foll. by up) study (a subject) hard or hurriedly.
--n.
1 a person who swots.
2 a hard study. b a thing that requires this.
Etymology:
dial. var. of SWEAT