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Wallow

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wal⋅low

  [wol-oh]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment: Goats wallowed in the dust.
2. to live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel: to wallow in luxury; to wallow in sentimentality.
3. to flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty: A gunboat wallowed toward port.
4. to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat: Waves of black smoke wallowed into the room.
–noun
5. an act or instance of wallowing.
6. a place in which animals wallow: hog wallow; an elephant wallow.
7. the indentation produced by animals wallowing: a series of wallows across the farmyard.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME walwe, OE wealwian to roll; c. Goth walwjan; akin to L volvere

Synonyms:
2. swim, bask.
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wal·low   (wŏl'ō)   
intr.v.   wal·lowed, wal·low·ing, wal·lows

  1. To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud.

  2. To luxuriate; revel: wallow in self-righteousness.

  3. To be plentifully supplied: wallowing in money.

  4. To move with difficulty in a clumsy or rolling manner; flounder: "The car wallowed back through the slush, with ribbons of bright water trickling down the windshield from the roof" (Anne Tyler).

  5. To swell or surge forth; billow.

n.  

  1. The act or an instance of wallowing.

    1. A pool of water or mud where animals go to wallow.

    2. The depression, pool, or pit produced by wallowing animals.

  3. A condition of degradation or baseness.


[Middle English walowen, from Old English wealwian; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
wal'low·er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

wallow 
O.E. wealwian "to roll," from W.Gmc. *walwojan, from PIE *wal-, *wel- "to roll" (see vulva). Fig. sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from c.1230. The noun is recorded from 1591.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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