verb, noun
verb [V] ~ (in sth)
1 (of large animals or people) to lie and roll about in water or mud, to keep cool or for pleasure:
hippos wallowing in the river * He loves to wallow in a hot bath after a game.
2 (often disapproving) to enjoy sth that causes you pleasure:
She wallowed in the luxury of the hotel. * to wallow in despair / self-pity (= to think about your unhappy feelings all the time and seem to be enjoying them)
noun [sing.] an act of wallowing:
pigs having a wallow in the mud
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wallow is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does wallow appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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