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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious [syn: swot, grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb] v
1: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: English dialect, sweat, from Middle English swot, from Old English sw?t — more at sweat Date: 1850 British grind 2b II. intransitive verb (swotted; swotting) Date: circa 1860 British grind 4

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(swots, swotting, swotted) 1. If you swot, you study very hard, especially when you are preparing for an examination. (BRIT INFORMAL) They swotted for their A levels. VERB: V for n 2. If you call someone a swot, you disapprove of the fact that they study extremely hard and are not interested in other things. (BRIT INFORMAL) N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

beast of burden, bone, commit to memory, con, contemplate, dig, drill, drudge, elucubrate, examine, fag, galley slave, get by heart, get letter-perfect, go over, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, have by heart, know by heart, learn by heart, learn verbatim, lucubrate, memorize, parrot, peruse, plodder, plunge into, pore over, practice, read, recite, regard studiously, repeat, repeat by heart, restudy, review, slave, slogger, study, swot up, vet, wade through, workhorse