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Definition of Wallow

Wallow

Act of wallowing.

A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.

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.

To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.

To wither; to fade.

To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.

A kind of rolling walk.

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Wallow Quotations

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Fred Allen

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
Neal Boortz

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
Kabir Bedi

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Boris Kodjoe

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
Naveen Jain

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
John H. Speke

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?
Judith Jamison