to wallow

Examples

• All

• Men who've been good too long get a longing for the mud and want to wallow in it.

  The Paradine Case (1947)

• - Marty's, where all the pigs wallow.

  Let It Ride (1989)

• Maybe I just like to wallow in the mud every now and then.

  Blog text (24)

• Those I let wallow in their own filth.

  Bedlam (1946)

• But perhaps some of you want to wallow in a mudbath like rhinoceroses.

  Fiction book (1991)

• There are pigs grunting and wallowing in their pen in the wet.

  Fiction book (1994)

• That's where I saw the tracks, deep tracks in the mud where some animal had wallowed to its knees.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Very likely one of those Sudanese elites, used to an easy life wallowing about in the swamps.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Greek Chorus: Snakes that slither, cats that creep, pigs that wallow, birds that peep.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The elephants love to wallow in the cool mud to keep their skin from drying out.

Synonyms

H

to hog-wallowing

vsto wallow

9.4

To roll or lie in mud and enjoy getting dirty

focuses on animals doing it to cool down or feel refreshed

Idioms

W

to wallow in the mire

1 9.9

To stay sad and think about problems instead of trying to fix them

Phrasal Verbs

W

to wallow in

28 7.4

To spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself and not trying to change

How Deep

to submerge

42 3.9

to bathe

41 1.0

to wallow

10 4.1

to wade

22 2.2

Surface Forms

Etymology