1. an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious • Syn: swot, grind, wonk, dweeb • Derivationally related forms: grind (for: grind), swot (for: swot) • Hypernyms: learner, scholar, assimilator 2. an intelligent but single-minded expert in a particular technical field or profession • Hypernyms: expert
