wallow — ONAD

wallow /ˈwälō, ˈwɑloʊ

▸ verb [no object]

1 (chiefly of large mammals) roll about or lie relaxed in mud or water, especially to keep cool, avoid biting insects, or spread scent:

watering places where buffalo liked to wallow.

▪ (of a boat or aircraft) roll from side to side:

the small jet wallowed in the sky.

2 (wallow in) (of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that creates a pleasurable sensation):

I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel

he had been wallowing in self-pity.

▸ noun

1 an act of wallowing:

a wallow in nostalgia.

2 an area of mud or shallow water where mammals go to wallow, typically developing into a depression in the ground over long use:

a buffalo wallow.

– DERIVATIVES
wallower

– ORIGIN Old English walwian ‘to roll about’, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin volvere ‘to roll’.