Wallow vs Grumble - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between wallow and grumble

is that wallow is to live in filth or gross vice; to behave in a beastly and unworthy manner while grumble is to utter in a grumbling fashion.

As verbs the difference between wallow and grumble

is that 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 while grumble is to make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

As nouns the difference between wallow and grumble

is that wallow is an instance of wallowing while grumble is (onomatopoeia) a low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

As an adjective wallow

is tasteless, flat.

wallow

English

Alternative forms

* waller (eye dialect)

Etymology 1

(etyl) wealwian, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

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.

Pigs wallow in the mud.

* Shakespeare

I may wallow in the lily beds.

To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.

She wallowed in her misery.

* The Simpsons (TV series)

With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.

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

God sees a man wallowing in his native impurity.

(intransitive, UK, Scotland, dialect) To wither; to fade.

Usage notes

In the sense of “to immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with”, it is almost exclusively used for self-indulgent negative emotions, particularly self-pity. See synonyms for general or positive alternatives, such as (revel).

Synonyms

* (to immerse oneself in) bask, delight, indulge, luxuriate, revel, rollick

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of wallowing.

A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow.

A kind of rolling walk.

Etymology 2

(From inflected forms of) (etyl) . Compare (waugh).

Adjective

(en adjective)

Tasteless, flat.

grumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

(onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

The sound made by a hungry stomach.

A complaint.

That whiner is never without a grumble to share.

Derived terms

* grumbly

Verb

(grumbl)

To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

The distant thunder grumbles .

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Terry C. Johnston , title=Dance on the Wind , page=15 , passage=It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own.}}

To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

He grumbles about the food constantly, but has yet to learn to cook.

To utter in a grumbling fashion.

* 2001 , Harry Willcox Pfanz, Gettysburg — the first day?

He grumbled that there was no grain "in the country" and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* grumbler