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Wallow   /wˈɑloʊ/   Listen
noun
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.



verb
Wallow  v. t.  To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes."



Wallow  v. i.  (past & past part. wallowed; pres. part. 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.)






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"Wallow" Quotes from Famous Books



... language, I tell them we are friends; but they flee to the rocks, except a man, a woman, and two children. We land, and talk with them. They are without lodges, but have built little shelters of boughs, under which they wallow in the sand. The man is dressed in a hat; the woman in a string of beads only. At first they are evidently much terrified; but when I talk to them in their own language, and tell them we are friends, and inquire after people in the Mormon towns, they are soon reassured, and ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers • Various

... heartie and reuerent obedience to our Princes at home, hath bred vs a long, and a thrice happy peace: Our Peace hath bred wealth: And Peace and wealth hath brought foorth a generall sluggishnesse, which makes vs wallow in all sorts of idle delights, and soft delicacies, The first seedes of the subuersion of all great Monarchies. Our Cleargie are become negligent and lazie, our Nobilitie and Gentrie prodigall, and solde to their priuate delights, Our Lawyers ...
— A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco • King James I.

... charity is bestowed by Europeans in the streets, as they generally ride in palanquins or carriages, and as, besides, they feel the weight even of a purse too much on a hot day. However, let it not be supposed that they, like Dives, wallow in wealth, and close their ears to the importunities of the heathen. The Baboo or Sircar gives weekly or monthly pensions to some patronised beggars; and on a Saturday in some large towns, the blind, lame, and halt come to the gates of the grandees, and receive ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419, New Series, January 10, 1852 • Various

... mental deficiencies of those who love to wallow in the mire of salacious news about others, the psychologists have come to some interesting conclusions. To them it seems that there is an essential identity between the gossip and the genius. In both, the mental processes work with the same tendency to reproduce every fragment ...
— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin

... Buffalo Wallow, the source of the name being obvious. But once water was brought through the underground course, and piped to a reservoir, whence it could be distributed to drinking troughs for the cattle, and also used to irrigate the land, it enabled a fine crop of fodder to be ...
— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker


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