To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud.
To luxuriate; revel: wallow in self-righteousness.
To be plentifully supplied: wallowing in money.
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).
To swell or surge forth; billow.
n.
The act or an instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud where animals go to wallow.
The depression, pool, or pit produced by wallowing animals.
A condition of degradation or baseness.
[Middle English walowen, from Old English wealwian; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.] wal'low·er n.