Crossword clues for wallow
wallow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wallow \Wal"low\, n. A kind of rolling walk.
One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
--Dryden.
2. Act of wallowing.
3. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.
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.
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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.
I may wallow in the lily beds.
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To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
--South. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t.
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
``Wallow thyself in ashes.''
--Jer. vi. 26.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wealwian "to roll," from West Germanic *walwon, from PIE root *wel- (3) "to roll" (see volvox). Figurative sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from early 13c. Related: Wallowed; wallowing. The noun is recorded from 1590s as "act of rolling;" 1841 as "place where an animal wallows."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 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. 3 A kind of rolling walk. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To roll oneself 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. 2 (context intransitive English) To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. 3 (context intransitive English) To roll; especially, to roll in anything defile or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud. 4 (context intransitive English) To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner. 5 (context intransitive UK Scotland dialect English) To wither; to fade. Etymology 2
(context now dialectal English) tasteless, flat.
WordNet
n. a puddle where animals go to wallow
an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water"
v. devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: welter]
rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up nto the sky" [syn: billow]
delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "wallow".
Burnside wallowed before an abstraction, and Burnside is not Houdini when it comes to abstractions.
With a backhand swing of his gun, The Shadow cuffed the second mastiff so forcibly that it lost its balance and wallowed like a puppy.
One mastodont was wallowing in the mud of a shallow water hole, its fringe crusted with late-winter ice.
The dilapidated wagon had fallen to pieces in midstream, bits of wood and precious bundles of produce floating away as the master wallowed helplessly.
Thus with his brain full of manifold and multiform thoughts of the past did Cormac mac Art sit and wallow in days gone by, and avoid thereby thinking of the present and future.
She wallowed in this contrast of cold and heat, of pure animal comfort, and hard palliasse below with rough blankets above.
Vetch and the rest of the dragon boys had all rehearsed what they were to do, and after the sun set and all the dragons had settled, they had gone down every row of pens and pulled the canvas awnings over every one of the sand wallows.
And where the Scaum wallows through a broad dale, purple with horse-blossom, pocked white and gray with crumbling castles, the Derna has sheered a steep canyon, overhung by forested bluffs.
The sea rose in precipitous mountain-masses, and anon wallowed in black abysmal chasms,--the clouds flew in a fierce rack overhead like the forms of huge witches astride on eagle-shaped monsters,--and with it all there was a close heat in the air, notwithstanding the tearing wind,--a heat and a sulphureous smell, suggestive of some pent-up hellish fire that but waited its opportunity to break forth and consume the land.
In the slough of uncleanliness wallows The he-goat, and revels the hog.
This tumbled about in the spotlights, wallowed a great unmuscled expanse of rump and bounced a mammoth front at the audience, jeering with laughter, railed off the stage in grisly flounces of flesh.
MetaCop says, turning around, sneering at her through the antiballistic glass, wallowing in power.
To-day wallowing in luxury, and to-morrow reduced to the coarsest and most homely fare.
The cockboat wallowed from side to side as the taller man stepped to the stern.
Half listening to Cagan and the other agents, half wallowing in should-have-be ens she walked back to the empty boxes and stared at the pile of plastic disklike devices.