wallow
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
Verb

wallow (wallows, present participle wallowing; past and past participle wallowed) (intransitive)

  1. To roll#Verb|roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
    Pigs wallow in the mud.
    • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: Imprinted by G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, OCLC 951696502 ↗, [Act III, scene ii] ↗:
      O be thou my {{w
  2. To move#Verb|move lazily or heavily in any medium#Noun|medium; to flounder#Verb|flounder.
  3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
    She wallowed in her misery.
    • 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Third”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 174215199 ↗, page 165 ↗:
      With the help of a sleepy waiter, Little Billee got the bacchanalian into his room and lit his candle for him, and, disengaging himself from his maudlin embraces, left him to wallow in solitude.
    • 1995, The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 1, Who Shot Mr. Burns?, written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein:
      With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
  4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
    • God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
    • 1895, The Review of Reviews (volume 11, page 215)
      The floors are at times inches deep with dirt and scraps of clothing. The whole place wallows with putrefaction. In some of the rooms it would seem that there had not been a breath of fresh air for five years.
  5. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade#Verb|fade.
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations
  • Russian: валя́ться
Translations
  • Russian: погря́знуть
Translations
  • Russian: вя́нуть
Noun

wallow (plural wallows)

  1. An instance of wallowing.
  2. A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
    • 2003, Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves:
      Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.
  3. A kind of rolling walk.
Translations
  • Russian: лу́жа
Adjective

wallow

  1. (now dialectal) Tasteless, flat.



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