swot
- n an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- v study intensively, as before an exam
- To his classmates at Harrow, George Macaulay Trevelyan seemed, as he himself tells it, like "a 'swot' of the worst kind .
- At school I was a swot, into books.
- With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swot an errant ape from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary to humans not just a smaller rhesus monkey.