wallow
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wallow englanniksi
To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.
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(RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1), / And giue me ſwift tranſportance to theſe fieldes, / VVhere I may wallow in the lilly beds, / Propoſ'd for the deſeruer.
(RQ:KJV)
(RQ:Bunyan Holy War)
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To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne,(nb...)|year=1610|year_published=1745|volume=IV|page=125|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=bApZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125|oclc=5325177|passage=If there be any lazy Fellow, any that cannot away with Work, any that would wallow in Pleaſures, he is haſty to be prieſted. And, when he is made one, and hath gotten a Benefice, he conſorts with his Neighbour Prieſts, who are altogether given to Pleaſures; and then both he, and they, live, not like ''Chriſtians'', but like ''Epicures''; drinking, eating, feaſting, and revelling, till the Cow come Home, as the saying is; ...
(RQ:George du Maurier Trilby)
(RQ:Mansfield Bliss)
1995, ''The Simpsons'' Season 7 Episode 1, ''Who Shot Mr. Burns?'', written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein:
- With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons)
{{quote-journal|en|year=1895|work=The Review of Reviews|volume=11|page=215
An instance of wallowing.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
{{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Suzann Ledbetter|title=A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves