WALLOW

wallow

(noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about; “a good wallow in the water”

wallow

(noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow

wallow

(verb) delight greatly in; “wallow in your success!”

wallow

(verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; “Wallow in luxury”; “wallow in your sorrows”

wallow, rejoice, triumph

(verb) be ecstatic with joy

wallow, welter

(verb) roll around; “pigs were wallowing in the mud”

billow, wallow

(verb) rise up as if in waves; “smoke billowed up into the sky”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

wallow (third-person singular simple present wallows, present participle wallowing, simple past and past participle wallowed) (intransitive)

To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

To move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder.

To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.

To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.

(Britain, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.

Usage notes

In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as revel.

Synonyms

• (to immerse oneself in): bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick

Noun

wallow (plural wallows)

An instance of wallowing.

A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.

A kind of rolling walk.

Etymology 2

Adjective

wallow (comparative more wallow, superlative most wallow)

(now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.

Source: Wiktionary


Wal"low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.] Etym: [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. *147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.]

1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak.

2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. South.

3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wal"low, v. t.

Definition: To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi. 26.

Wal"low, n.

Definition: A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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