Question 1 · Quick check
wallow
CEFRB2
/ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
verb
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To roll around in mud, water, or something unpleasant.
- 02
verb
To spend time feeling or thinking about something unpleasant.
Examples
A pig will wallow in the mud in order to cool down.
Don't just lean back and wallow in your misery.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
To move lazily or heavily in any medium.
To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
More examples
In contextWith Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
Pigs wallow in the mud.
She wallowed in her misery.
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Origin
verb
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).