wallow

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To let yourself enjoy or sink into a feeling, often a sad or self-pitying one.

   Instead of wallowing in self-pity, she decided to make a fresh start.

2. 2
   verb

   To roll about in mud or water, the way some animals do.

   The pigs wallowed happily in the cool mud.

3. 3
   noun

   A muddy pool where animals roll about.

   The buffalo gathered at the wallow to escape the heat.

Common collocations

• wallow in Verb + preposition/particle

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).

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