wallow

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: welterbillowrejoicetriumph

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a puddle where animals go to wallow
  2. an indolent or clumsy rolling about“a good wallow in the water”

Verb (5)

  1. devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure“Wallow in luxury”“wallow in your sorrows”
  2. roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"Synonyms: welter
  3. rise up as if in waves“smoke billowed up into the sky”Synonyms: billow
  4. be ecstatic with joySynonyms: rejoicetriumph
  5. delight greatly in“wallow in your success!”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Wallow \Wal"low\, n. A kind of rolling walk. [1913 Webster]

One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2.Act of wallowing. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3.A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Wallow \Wal"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing.] [OE. walwen, AS. wealwian; akin to Goth. walwjan (in comp.) to roll, L. volvere; cf. Skr. val to turn. [root]147. Cf. Voluble Well, n.] [1913 Webster]

1.To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. [1913 Webster]

I may wallow in the lily beds.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner. [1913 Webster]

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.— South.[1913 Webster]

3.To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]

Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." --Jer. vi. 26. [1913 Webster]
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