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swot^¹

/swɒt/ UK
/swɑt/ US
/swɔt/ Australia

Sounds like swat · Rhymes with -ɒt

Where it comes from

From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.

verb swots · swotting · swotted · swat

Ireland, UK, informal, intransitive To study with effort or determination. Are you going to swot at it all the evening?
Similar: cram

noun swots · swat

Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable One who swots; a boffin, nerd, or smart aleck. He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.
Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable Work. All I want is — guerre fini, soldat fini; and to go home without burden of any thought save music, and hard swot for a time.
Ireland, UK, countable, informal, slang, uncountable Vigorous study at an educational institution.

SWOT^²

noun

abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. Could you do a SWOT analysis of the business proposal I sent you?

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verb study hard

Español	empollar, chancar
한국어	열공하다 yeolgonghada
日本語	がり勉する gariben suru
中文	死記 /死记 sǐjì
हिन्दी	रटना raṭnā, रट्टा मारना raṭṭā mārnā
Português	marrar
Français	bûcher, bosser, potasser, bachoter, se bourrer le crâne
Deutsch	büffeln, pauken
Italiano	sgobbare
Русский	зубри́ть zubrítʹ, вы́зубрить výzubritʹ

noun one who swots

Español	empollón, empollona, chapón, chapona, mateo, chancón
한국어	공부벌레 gongbubeolle
日本語	我利勉, がり勉 gariben
中文	死記者 /死记者 sǐjìzhě
Português	marrão
Français	bûcheur, bosseur, bachoteur
Deutsch	Büffler
Русский	зубри́ла zubríla

noun work

Français	boulot, tapin
Русский	вка́лывание vkályvanije

noun vigorous study

日本語	がり勉 gariben
中文	死記 /死记 sǐjì
Français	bachot, bachotage
Deutsch	Büffeln, Pauken
Русский	зубрёжка zubrjóžka

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@misc{swot_2026,
  title = {swot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}