What does "wallow" mean?
Wallow: 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. South.
Additional senses
- 2.To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
- 3.To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean. "Wallow thyself in ashes." Jer. vi.
- 4.A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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