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Tallowed vs Wallowed - What's the difference?

tallowed | wallowed |

As verbs the difference between tallowed and wallowed

is that tallowed is (tallow) while wallowed is (wallow).

tallowed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tallow)

    • tallow

    English

    (wikipedia tallow)

    Noun

    (-)
  • a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants
  • * 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
    • Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To grease or smear with tallow.
  • To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
    • to tallow sheep

    wallowed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wallow)

    • 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.