'Wallow' definitions:
Definition of 'wallow'
From: WordNet
noun
A puddle where animals go to wallow
noun
An indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the water"
verb
Devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
verb
Roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: wallow, welter]
verb
Rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky" [syn: billow, wallow]
verb
verb
Delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"
Definition of 'Wallow'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Wallow'
From: GCIDE
- Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." --Jer. vi. 26. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wallow'
From: 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.]
Synonyms of 'wallow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appreciate,
- baby,
- bask,
- baygall,
- be promiscuous,
- bend,
- blunder,
- bog,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- buffalo wallow,
- careen,
- career,
- chase women,
- commit adultery,
- cower,
- cringe,
- crouch,
- cuddle,
- debauch,
- delight,
- dissipate,
- everglade,
- falter,
- fen,
- fenland,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- fornicate,
- get down,
- glade,
- grovel,
- heave,
- hobbyhorse,
- hog wallow,
- holm,
- humor,
- hunch,
- hunch down,
- indulge,
- labor,
- lurch,
- luxuriate,
- make heavy weather,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- mere,
- mire,
- moor,
- moorland,
- morass,
- moss,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- nestle,
- pamper,
- peat bog,
- philander,
- pitch,
- pitch and plunge,
- pitch and toss,
- plunge,
- pound,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- rake,
- rear,
- reel,
- relish,
- revel,
- rock,
- roll,
- rollick,
- salt marsh,
- scend,
- scrouch down,
- seethe,
- sleep around,
- slob land,
- slough,
- snuggle,
- sough,
- spoil,
- squat,
- stagger,
- stoop,
- struggle,
- stumble,
- sump,
- swale,
- swamp,
- swampland,
- sway,
- swing,
- taiga,
- thrash about,
- toss,
- toss and tumble,
- toss and turn,
- totter,
- tumble,
- volutation,
- wallop,
- wamble,
- wanton,
- wash,
- welter,
- whore,
- womanize,
- yaw