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One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Vigorous study at an educational institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Acronym of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Topics: business
Examples
- Could you do a SWOT analysis of the business proposal I sent you?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To study with effort or determination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, informal, intransitive
Examples
- Are you going to swot at it all the evening?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cram
Antonyms: none provided
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grind, nerd, wonk, dweeb
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: learner, scholar, assimilator
study intensively, as before an exam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: study, hit the books
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
зубрач
(zubrač)
— one who swots
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Chinese Mandarin:
死記者 /死记者
(sǐjìzhě)
— one who swots
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Dutch:
blokker
— one who swots
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Finnish:
hikipinko
— one who swots
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Finnish:
hikari
— one who swots
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Finnish:
hikke
— one who swots
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Finnish:
pinko
— one who swots
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French:
bûcheur
— one who swots
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French:
bosseur
— one who swots
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French:
bachoteur
— one who swots
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Galician:
chapón
— one who swots
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German:
Büffler
— one who swots
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Japanese:
我利勉
— one who swots
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Japanese:
がり勉
(gariben)
— one who swots
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Korean:
공부벌레
(gongbubeolle)
— one who swots
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Manx:
ard-studeyr
— one who swots
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Polish:
kujon
— one who swots
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Portuguese:
marrão
— one who swots
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Russian:
зубри́ла
(zubríla)
— one who swots
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Spanish:
empollón
— one who swots
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Spanish:
empollona
— one who swots
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Spanish:
chapón
— one who swots
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Spanish:
chapona
— one who swots
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Spanish:
mateo
— one who swots
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Spanish:
chancón
— one who swots
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Swedish:
plugghäst
— one who swots
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French:
boulot
— work
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French:
tapin
— work
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Russian:
вка́лывание
(vkályvanije)
— work
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Bulgarian:
зубрене
(zubrene)
— vigorous study
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Chinese Mandarin:
死記 /死记
(sǐjì)
— vigorous study
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Dutch:
blok
— vigorous study
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French:
bachot
— vigorous study
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French:
bachotage
— vigorous study
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German:
Büffeln
— vigorous study
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German:
Pauken
— vigorous study
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Japanese:
がり勉
(gariben)
— vigorous study
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Russian:
зубрёжка
(zubrjóžka)
— vigorous study
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Armenian:
կրծել
(krcel)
— study hard
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Bulgarian:
зубря
(zubrja)
— study hard
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Catalan:
empollar
— study hard
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Chinese Mandarin:
死記 /死记
(sǐjì)
— study hard
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Czech:
šprtat
— study hard
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Czech:
biflovat
— study hard
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Czech:
drtit se
— study hard
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Dutch:
blokken
— study hard
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Dutch:
stampen
— study hard
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Finnish:
ahtaa päähänsä
— study hard
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Finnish:
päntätä
— study hard
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French:
bûcher
— study hard
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French:
bosser
— study hard
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French:
potasser
— study hard
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French:
bachoter
— study hard
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French:
se bourrer le crâne
— study hard
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Galician:
chapar
— study hard
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German:
büffeln
— study hard
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German:
pauken
— study hard
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Hindi:
रटना
(raṭnā)
— study hard
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Hindi:
रट्टा मारना
(raṭṭā mārnā)
— study hard
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Hungarian:
magol
— study hard
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Hungarian:
bemagol
— study hard
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Hungarian:
biflázik
— study hard
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Irish:
pulc
— study hard
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Italian:
sgobbare
— study hard
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Japanese:
がり勉する
(gariben suru)
— study hard
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Korean:
열공하다
(yeolgonghada)
— study hard
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Norwegian Bokmål:
pugge
— study hard
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Polish:
kuć
— study hard
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Polish:
wkuwać
— study hard
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Polish:
wkuć
— study hard
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Portuguese:
marrar
— study hard
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Russian:
зубри́ть
(zubrítʹ)
— study hard
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Russian:
вы́зубрить
(výzubritʹ)
— study hard
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Spanish:
empollar
— study hard
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Spanish:
chancar
— study hard
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Thai:
ติว
(dtiu)
— study hard
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Turkish:
ineklemek
— study hard
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Turkish:
hatmetmek
— study hard
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Turkish:
hafızlamak
— study hard
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Welsh:
adolygu
— study hard