wallow
verb
- to roll or lie about (often in mud or water)
- immerse within (often more so than one usually does); luxuriate
noun
- German politician
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English walwe, walh, from Old English wealg, from Proto-West Germanic *walg, from Proto-Germanic *walgaz. Cognate with Dutch walg (“disgust”), dialectal Norwegian valg (“tasteless”). Doublet of waugh.
- Tasteless, flat.
noun
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).
- An instance of wallowing.
- A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
“However, we have no time to linger, and picking our way among the countless buffalo wallows which indent the level surface of the summit, the wagon, […]”
“Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.”
- A kind of rolling walk.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English walwen, from Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of Old English fealwian (“to grow pale, turn yellow, ripen, wither”). Alternatively, perhaps related to Middle English welken (“to fade, droop, wither”), modern English welk.
- To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.