English▸ verb [no object]
1 (chiefly of large mammals) roll about or lie in mud or water, especially to keep cool or avoid biting insects:
there were watering places where buffalo liked to wallow.
▪ (of a boat or aircraft) roll from side to side:
a ship wallowing in stormy seas.
2 (wallow in) (of a person) indulge in an unrestrained way in (something that one finds pleasurable):
I was wallowing in the luxury of the hotel
he had been wallowing in self-pity.
– ORIGIN Old English walwian ‘to roll about’, of Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin volvere ‘to roll’.