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Walter vs Wallow - What's the difference?

walter | wallow |

As verbs the difference between walter and wallow

is that walter is (obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to roll or wallow; to welter while 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 a noun wallow is

an instance of wallowing.

As an adjective wallow is

tasteless, flat.

walter

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
    • Whitmore . And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
    Suffolk''. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by ''Water'' I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - ''Gaultier , being rightly sounded.
  • * 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
    • And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter', for instance. You can't be '''Walter''' in a pram. You can't be ' Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.

    Related terms

    * (pet forms ) Wally, Walt, Wat * (surnames ) Gwatkin, Walters, Waters, Waterson, Watkin, Watkins, Watkinson, Watson, Watt, Watts

    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.