Sekirov Dictionary

wallow

/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/

verb 5
noun 3
adjective 1
forms 7

verb5

•
To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
- Pigs wallow in the mud.
•
(figurative) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
- She wallowed in her misery.
To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
•
To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.
- God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity. — 1692
(dialect, UK) To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.

noun3

An instance of wallowing.
•
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
- However, we have no time to linger, and picking our way among the countless buffalo wallows which indent the level surface of the summit, the wagon, […] — 1901
A kind of rolling walk.

adjective1

(dialect) Tasteless, flat.

forms

wallowed · wallowing · walloweth · wallows · wallowest · more wallow · most wallow

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