All 4 Uses of
wallow
in
The Jungle Book
- The buffaloes generally keep to the pools and muddy places, where they lie wallowing or basking in the warm mud for hours.
Chpt 5. *wallowing = relaxing
- Then they sleep and wake and sleep again, and weave little baskets of dried grass and put grasshoppers in them; or catch two praying mantises and make them fight; or string a necklace of red and black jungle nuts; or watch a lizard basking on a rock, or a snake hunting a frog near the wallows.
Chpt 5.wallows = mud puddles
- Day after day Mowgli would lead the buffaloes out to their wallows, and day after day he would see Gray Brother's back a mile and a half away across the plain (so he knew that Shere Khan had not come back), and day after day he would lie on the grass listening to the noises round him, and dreaming of old days in the jungle.
Chpt 5.
- Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes' legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.
Chpt 5.
Definition:
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(wallow as in: wallow happily in the mud) to relax -- especially of an animal rolling about in mud or shallow water
or more rarely: a noun describing the mud puddle or indentation in which an animal relaxes or rolls around