wallow

Meanings

1. To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
2. To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
3. To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
4. To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.

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.

1. To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.

1. Tasteless, flat.

Etymology

From Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, from Old English wealwian (“to roll”), from Proto-West Germanic *walwōn, variant of *walwijan, from Proto-Germanic *walwijaną (“to roll”), from Proto-Indo-European *welw-, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“roll, tumble”, verb).

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