swot

swot at a subject (=swot a subject up)

at school I wasn't a swot, but I wasn't a layabout either.

I have to swot up on phrasal verbs for a test tomorrow.

Hermione's always been depicted as the geek, the swot.

A swot, oh really, okay. Yeah, a swot is someone who studies hard.

Exactly. A swot, there you go, a new word for me.

And swots. And then in the system there's two more. So there's also participants.

You're going to have players who love the subject and pupils who love being a good student. And swots.

This man was a swot and he studied hard at syllogism.

But there is a range of other public-school types, including dutiful swots like Rishi Sunak, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer.

The swot had brought some swimsuit with him.

So the swot had to put him to the sword.

The swot suggested they put up the sword, but the swineherd disagreed with him.