All 6 Uses of
wallow
in
Old Yeller
- He went down, yelling and pitching and wallowing.†
p. 22.2
- He'd be yelling and the coon would be squawling and they'd go wallowing and clawing and threshing through the corn, popping the stalks as they broke them off, making such an uproar in the night that it sounded like murder.†
p. 58.9
- He'd roll and wallow in the dirt and go dragging his body through tall weeds, trying to get the scent off; but he couldn't.†
p. 59.5 *
- They'd come there to drink and to wallow around in the potholes of soft cool mud.†
p. 74.6
- They gathered sticky mud out of a hog wallow and carried it up and stuck it to the bare rocks of the cliff, shaping the mud into little bulging nests with a single hole in the center of each one.†
p. 80.4
- I lay on the bed inside the cabin and Yeller lay on the cowhide in the dog run, and we both hurt so bad that we were wallowing and groaning and whimpering all the time.†
p. 99.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 -
(2)
(wallow as in: wallow in self-pity) to excessively give into a desire (indulge)
(This is often said of something negative such as self-pity when no attempt is made to move beyond it. But it is also sometimes said without negative connotation just to indicate that someone is enjoying a lot of something such as luxury or rest.) -
(3)
(wallow as in: a wagon wallowed through the mud) to move with difficulty; or perhaps just to move through water or in a rolling/wave-like manner