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Wallow vs Wallower - What's the difference?

wallow | wallower |

As nouns the difference between wallow and wallower

is that wallow is an instance of wallowing while wallower is agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.

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.

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.

    • wallower

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of wallow; one who wallows.
  • (dated, engineering) A lantern wheel; a trundle.
  • * 1847 , Edward Cresy, An Encyclopaedia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical
    • At each end of the water-wheel is a vertical shaft with wallowers
    English agent nouns