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Word entry · 6 letters

wallow

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"Roll about"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted allowwStarts with WEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. delight greatly in

Word origin

From Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, from Old English wealwian (“to roll”), from Proto-West Germanic *walwōn, variant of *walwijan, from Proto-Germanic *walwijaną (“to roll”), from Proto-Indo-European *welw-, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“roll, tumble”, verb).

Used in a sentence

  • Pigs wallow in the mud.
  • O be thou my Charon, / And giue me ſwift tranſportance to theſe fieldes, / VVhere I may wallow in the lilly beds, / Propoſ'd for the deſeruer.
  • Make ye him drunken: for hee magnified himselfe against the Lord: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shalbe in derision.

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