wallow
pronunciation
How to pronounce wallow in British English:
UK [ˈwɒləʊ]
How to pronounce wallow in American English:
US [ˈwɑloʊ]
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- Noun:
- a puddle where animals go to wallow
- an indolent or clumsy rolling about
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- Verb:
- devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure
- roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
- rise up as if in waves
- be ecstatic with joy
- delight greatly in
Word Origin
- wallow
- wallow: [OE] To wallow is etymologically to ‘roll’ about. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *wol-, *wel- ‘roll’, which also produced English helix, involve, vault, volume, etc. From this was descended prehistoric Germanic *wal-, *wel- (source of English waltz, welter, etc, and possibly of wallet). The extended form *walw- produced West Germanic *walwōjan, which evolved into English wallow.=> involve, revolve, volume, waltz, welter
- wallow (v.)
- Old English wealwian "to roll," from West Germanic *walwon, from PIE root *wel- (3) "to roll" (see volvox). Figurative sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from early 13c. Related: Wallowed; wallowing. The noun is recorded from 1590s as "act of rolling;" 1841 as "place where an animal wallows."
Example
- 1. The french and americans wallow in their own supposed exceptionalism .
- 2. There were several causes , but arizona 's wallow fire was a major contributor .
- 3. Not content to simply wallow in a bit of recognition , the youngsters have become uppity .
- 4. A dense plume flows east from the wallow fire in arizona , with a fainter plume rising from the horseshoe 2 fire in the south .
- 5. As the western wartime allies wallow in nostalgia , it is worth remembering that more than ten times as many " soviet " ( admittedly a loose term ) soldiers died in combat than british and american troops combined .