wallow
/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Pigs wallow in the mud."
- "O be thou my Charon, / And giue me ſwift tranſportance to theſe fieldes, / VVhere I may wallow in the lilly beds, / Propoſ'd for the deſeruer."
- "Make ye him drunken: for hee magnified himselfe against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shalbe in derision."
- "When Manſoul trampled upon things Divine, / And wallowed in filth as doth a ſwine:"
- "The fire was thrown to a great height; the fountains and jets all wallowed together; new ones appeared, and danced joyously round the margin, then converging towards the centre they merged into one glowing mass, which upheaved itself pyramidally and disappeared with a vast plunge."
- "“A Hot Steam’s somebody who can’t get to heaven, just wallows around on lonesome roads an‘ if you walk through him, when you die you’ll be one too, an’ you’ll go around at night suckin‘ people’s breath-”"
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *welH-, walowen, wealwian, *walwōn, *walwijaną, *welw-
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
Usage
- Intransitive verb
- British usage
Inflected Forms
wallows (present, singular)
wallowing (participle, present)
wallowed (participle, past)
wallowed (past)
waller (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
wallows (plural)
more wallow (comparative)
most wallow (superlative)