Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

swot up on

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

Syllables: swot up on
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To study particularly hard to learn (a subject) quickly.

British usage; Informal

Example Sentences

"You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris."
"So I went to technical college for several months to swot up on navigation for the exam."
"And while his fellow musicians spent their evenings smoking marijuana, Alan Greenspan busied himself by swotting up on economics and doing the band's accounts."

Usage

British usage
Informal

Inflected Forms

swots up on (present, singular) swotting up on (participle, present) swotted up on (participle, past) swotted up on (past)

Synonyms

bone up on

Questions

What does swot up on mean?: To study particularly hard to learn (a subject) quickly.

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