wallow

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He rolled his vast bulk in an old Buffalo-wallow, and rearing up against a tree where the Piney Cańon quits the Graybull Cańon, he left on it his mark fully eight feet from the ground In the days that followed he wandered farther and farther up among the rugged spurs of the Shoshones, and took possession as he went.

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  1. intransitive verb To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud.
  2. intransitive verb To luxuriate; revel: wallow in self-righteousness.
  3. intransitive verb To be plentifully supplied: wallowing in money.
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  • The mud in this wallow was perfumed Out of the mud stuck two ears of enormous size. —  029 - Quest of Qui
  • This wallow was filled with perfumed mud, equipped with health-ray lamps and other devices Monk was only a little over five feet in height, and was almost as broad. —  057 - The Sea Angel
  • Steve had long ago formed the habit of sleeping in a wallow, always to be found within a short distance, and, when found, possessing the advantage of being a "place." —  The Wrong Woman
  • "My! you don't know just how we wallow, and nearly flop over on our beam ends at such times. —  Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie
  • That night we laid out, sleeping without hardship in a dry buffalo-wallow, and noon of the next day brought us to Walsh, a huddle of log buildings clustering around a tall pole from which fluttered the union jack Off to one side of the fort a bunch of work-bulls fed peacefully. —  Raw Gold A Novel
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wallow:   wallowed ·  wallowing
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  1. Middle English walowen, from Old English wealwian; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also walow; from Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, wallow, from Anglo-Saxon wealwian, roll round, = Goth, walwjan, wallow, roll, = Latin volvere, roll (whence ult. English volute, volve, devolve, etc.).
  2. from wallow, v.
  3. from Middle English wallowen, wele wen, welhen, weolewen, from Anglo-Saxon wealwian, wealowian, wealuwian, fade, wither; perhaps ult. connected with welken, wither: see welk.
  4. Also Se. wauch, waugh; from Middle English walow, walwhe, walh, from Ieel. vālgr, luke warm, insipid. Cf. Dutch walg, disgust, aversion (later walgen, loathe, turn the stomach).
 

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