Wallow
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:26 pm
From onelook.com:
▸ noun: an indolent or clumsy rolling about ("A good wallow in the water")
▸ noun: a puddle where animals go to wallow
▸ verb: delight greatly in ("Wallow in your success!")
▸ verb: devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure ("Wallow in luxury")
▸ verb: be ecstatic with joy
▸ verb: roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
▸ verb: rise up as if in waves
From etymonline.com
O.E. wealwian "to roll," from W.Gmc. *walwojan, from PIE *wal-, *wel- "to roll" (see vulva). Fig. sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from c.1230. The noun is recorded from 1591.
That first verb definition caught me by surprise. I've always thought of this word as being a slough of despond kind of thing. I've never associated it with joy, that is to say.
▸ noun: an indolent or clumsy rolling about ("A good wallow in the water")
▸ noun: a puddle where animals go to wallow
▸ verb: delight greatly in ("Wallow in your success!")
▸ verb: devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure ("Wallow in luxury")
▸ verb: be ecstatic with joy
▸ verb: roll around, "pigs were wallowing in the mud"
▸ verb: rise up as if in waves
From etymonline.com
O.E. wealwian "to roll," from W.Gmc. *walwojan, from PIE *wal-, *wel- "to roll" (see vulva). Fig. sense of "to plunge and remain in some state or condition" is attested from c.1230. The noun is recorded from 1591.
That first verb definition caught me by surprise. I've always thought of this word as being a slough of despond kind of thing. I've never associated it with joy, that is to say.