Wallow /(?)/

Wal·low

Wallow

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Wallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wallowing

  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.
    I may wallow in the lily beds.
  2. 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.
  3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Wallow

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

Wallow

n.
  1. A kind of rolling walk.
    One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
  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.