Wallow vs Ballow - What's the difference?
wallow | ballow |
To roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
* Shakespeare
To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
* The Simpsons (TV series)
To roll; especially, to roll in anything defiling or unclean, as a hog might do to dust its body to relieve the distress of insect biting or cool its body with mud.
To live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner.
* South
(intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.
An instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.
A kind of rolling walk.
As nouns the difference between wallow and ballow
is that wallow is an instance of wallowing while ballow is (nautical) deep water inside a shoal or bar or ballow can be (obsolete) a cudgel.As adjectives the difference between wallow and ballow
is that wallow is tasteless, flat while ballow is (obsolete) round; pot-bellied.As a verb wallow
is to roll oneself about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.wallow
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Alternative forms
* waller (eye dialect)Etymology 1
(etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Pigs wallow in the mud.
- I may wallow in the lily beds.
- She wallowed in her misery.
- With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
- God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.