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wal⋅low⋅er

[wol-oh-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that wallows.
2. (in a windmill) a horizontal gear driven off the brake wheel.

Origin:
1540–50; wallow + -er 1
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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.

  2. A condition of degradation or baseness.


[Middle English walowen, from Old English wealwian; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
wal'low·er n.
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