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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.
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English walwe, Old English wealwian to roll; cognate with Gothic walwjan; akin to Latin volvere
before 900; Middle English walwe, Old English wealwian to roll; cognate with Gothic walwjan; akin to Latin volvere
Synonyms
2. swim, bask.
2. swim, bask.
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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.
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