Wallow
Wallow , intransitive verb
[Old English walwen, Anglo-Saxon wealwian; akin to Gothic walwjan (in comp.) to roll, Latin volvere; compare Sanskrit val to turn. r147. Compare Voluble Well, n.]
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. [Provincial English & Scottish]
Wallow , transitive verb
To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
Wallow thyself in ashes.
Wallow , noun
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.