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Wallow
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- 1 Tasteless, flat. dialectal, intransitive
- 1 An instance of wallowing. intransitive
- 2 an indolent or clumsy rolling about wordnet
- 3 A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. intransitive
"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, […]"
- 4 a puddle where animals go to wallow wordnet
- 5 A kind of rolling walk. intransitive
- 1 To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud. intransitive
"Pigs wallow in the mud."
- 2 To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish. UK, dialectal, intransitive
- 3 delight greatly in wordnet
- 4 To move lazily or heavily in any medium. intransitive
"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 devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure wordnet
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- 6 To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. figuratively, intransitive
"She wallowed in her misery."
- 7 be ecstatic with joy wordnet
- 8 To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner. intransitive
"God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity."
- 9 roll around wordnet
- 10 rise up as if in waves wordnet
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).
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).
From Middle English walwen, from Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old English fealwian (“to grow pale, turn yellow, ripen, wither”). Alternatively, perhaps related to Middle English welken (“to fade, droop, wither”), modern English welk.
From Middle English walwe, walh, from Old English wealg, from Proto-West Germanic *walg, from Proto-Germanic *walgaz. Cognate with Dutch walg (“disgust”), dialectal Norwegian valg (“tasteless”). Doublet of waugh.
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