Wallow

['wɒləʊ] or ['wɑlo]

Definition

(noun.) an indolent or clumsy rolling about; 'a good wallow in the water'.

(noun.) a puddle where animals go to wallow.

(verb.) delight greatly in; 'wallow in your success!'.

(verb.) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; 'Wallow in luxury'; 'wallow in your sorrows'.

(verb.) be ecstatic with joy.

(verb.) roll around, 'pigs were wallowing in the mud'.

Typist: Sanford--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

(n.) To wither; to fade.

(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

(n.) A kind of rolling walk.

Checked by Gardner

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. Flounder, roll, welter.

Checked by Elmer

Definition

v.i. (prov.) to fade away.

v.i. to roll about as in mire: to live in filth or gross vice.—n. the place an animal wallows in.—n. Wall′ower.

Editor: Vicky