wallow

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an indolent or clumsy rolling about

   a good wallow in the water

2. 2
   verb

   delight greatly in

   wallow in your success!

3. 3
   verb

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

   Pigs wallow in the mud.

4. 4
   verb

   To move lazily or heavily in any medium.

   The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge.

5. 5
   verb

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

   She wallowed in her misery.

6. 6
   verb

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

   God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.

7. 7
   noun

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

   However, we have no time to linger, and picking our way among the countless buffalo wallows which indent the level surface of the summit, the wagon, […]

8. 8
   noun

   a puddle where animals go to wallow

Etymology

From Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, from Old English wealwian (“to roll”), from Proto-West Germanic *walwōn, variant of *walwijan, from Proto-Germanic *walwijaną (“to roll”), from Proto-Indo-European *welw-, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“roll, tumble”, verb).