wallow
1wallow — wallow, welter, grovel can imply heavy clumsy movement and, when the reference is to man, a debased, pitiable, or ignoble condition. Wallow basically implies a lurching or rolling to and fro (as of a pig in the mire or a ship in the trough of a… …
2Wallow — 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… …
3Wallow — 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… …
4wallow — ► VERB 1) roll about or lie in mud or water. 2) (of a boat or aircraft) roll from side to side. 3) (wallow in) indulge without restraint in (something pleasurable). ► NOUN 1) an act of wallowing. 2) an area of mud or shallow water where mammals… …
5wallow — [wä′lō] vi. [ME walwen < OE wealwian, to roll around < PGmc * walw < IE * wolw < base * wel > WALK] 1. to roll about or lie relaxed, as in mud, dust or water 2. to move heavily and clumsily; roll and pitch, as a ship 3. to live or… …
6Wallow — Wal low, v. t. To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. Wallow thyself in ashes. Jer. vi. 26. [1913 Webster] …
7wallow — [v1] slosh around in bathe in, be immersed, blunder, flounder, get stuck, immerse, lie, loll, lurch, move around in, reel, roll, roll about, roll around in, splash around, sprawl, stagger, stumble, sway, toss, totter, tumble, wade, welter;… …
8wallow — index carouse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
9wallow — (v.) O.E. wealwian to roll, from W.Gmc. *walwojan, from PIE *wal , *wel to roll (see VULVA (Cf. vulva)). Figurative sense of to plunge and remain in some state or condition is attested from early 13c. Related: Wallowed; wallowing. The noun is… …
10Wallow — Hans Wallow (* 25. Dezember 1939 in Göttingen) ist ein deutscher Politiker. 1966 trat er der SPD bei, für die er von 1981 bis 1983 und von 1990 bis 1998 im Bundestag saß. 1998 verzichtete er aufgrund einer schweren Erkrankung auf eine erneute… …
