wallow

wallow
    n 1: a puddle where animals go to wallow
    2: an indolent or clumsy rolling about; "a good wallow in the
       water"
    v 1: devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an
         immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; "Wallow in
         luxury"; "wallow in your sorrows"
    2: roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud" [syn: {wallow},
       {welter}]
    3: rise up as if in waves; "smoke billowed up into the sky"
       [syn: {billow}, {wallow}]
    4: be ecstatic with joy [syn: {wallow}, {rejoice}, {triumph}]
    5: delight greatly in; "wallow in your success!"
    

Wallow \Wal"low\, n.
   A kind of rolling walk.
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         One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. Act of wallowing.
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   3. A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the
      depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a
      buffalo wallow.
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Wallow \Wal"low\, v. t.
   To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
   "Wallow thyself in ashes." --Jer. vi. 26.
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Wallow \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.]
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   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.
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            I may wallow in the lily beds.        --Shak.
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   2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a
      beastly and unworthy manner.
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            God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.
                                                  --South.
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   3. To wither; to fade. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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114 Moby Thesaurus words for "wallow":
      appreciate, baby, bask, baygall, be promiscuous, bend, blunder,
      bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, careen, career,
      chase women, commit adultery, cower, cringe, crouch, cuddle,
      debauch, delight, dissipate, everglade, falter, fen, fenland,
      flounce, flounder, fornicate, get down, glade, grovel, heave,
      hobbyhorse, hog wallow, holm, humor, hunch, hunch down, indulge,
      labor, lurch, luxuriate, make heavy weather, marais, marish, marsh,
      marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud,
      mud flat, nestle, pamper, peat bog, philander, pitch,
      pitch and plunge, pitch and toss, plunge, pound, quagmire,
      quicksand, rake, rear, reel, relish, revel, rock, roll, rollick,
      salt marsh, scend, scrouch down, seethe, sleep around, slob land,
      slough, snuggle, sough, spoil, squat, stagger, stoop, struggle,
      stumble, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, sway, swing, taiga,
      thrash about, toss, toss and tumble, toss and turn, totter, tumble,
      volutation, wallop, wamble, wanton, wash, welter, whore, womanize,
      yaw