wallow

1 a puddle where animals go to wallow

2 an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water"

1 devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"

2 roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: welter]

3 rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up nto the sky" [syn: billow]

4 be ecstatic with joy [syn: rejoice, triumph]

5 delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"

English

Pronunciation

• a UK /ˈwɒləʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɒləʊ

Etymology 1

etyl ang wealwian, from .

Verb

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.

   With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.

2. To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
3. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
4. To wither; to fade.

Translations

• German: sich wälzen (1,2), suhlen (1,2,3), schwelgen (1) (to wallow in vice) dem Laster frönen; (to wallow in money) im Geld schwimmen; (to wallow in pleasure) im Vergnügen schwelgen
• Dutch: zwelgen (1,2,3)

Noun

1. An instance of wallowing.
2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
3. A kind of rolling walk.

Translations

• German: Bad (1,2), Suhle (2)

Etymology 2

(From inflected forms of) etyl ang wealg, from . Cognate with dialectal Norwegian valg. Compare waugh.

Adjective

1. In the context of "now|_|dialectal": Tasteless, flat.

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