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What (who) is Wallow - definition

UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITY IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY
Bear Wallow, Washington County, Kentucky

wallow      
(wallows, wallowing, wallowed)
1.
If you say that someone is wallowing in an unpleasant situation, you are criticizing them for being deliberately unhappy.
His tired mind continued to wallow in self-pity...
VERB: V in n [disapproval]
2.
If a person or animal wallows in water or mud, they lie or roll about in it slowly for pleasure.
Never have I had such a good excuse for wallowing in deep warm baths...
VERB: V in n
wallow      
v. (d; intr.) to wallow in (to wallow in the mud)
Wallow      
·noun A kind of rolling walk.
II. Wallow ·add. ·noun Act of wallowing.
III. Wallow ·noun To Wither; to Fade.
IV. Wallow ·vt To Roll; ·esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
V. Wallow ·noun To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
VI. Wallow ·add. ·noun A place to which an animal comes to wallow; also, the depression in the ground made by its wallowing; as, a buffalo wallow.
VII. Wallow ·noun To roll one's self 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.

Wikipedia

Bearwallow, Kentucky

Bearwallow is an unincorporated crossroads village in Washington County, Kentucky, United States. It lies at the intersection of roads from Bardstown, Cisselville, Fredericktown, Manton, and McIntyre.

The name comes from a small depression where bears came to wallow in a mud hole.

Examples of use of Wallow
1. Frankly, only women would wallow in this peculiar self–contempt.
2. Under the last Democratic administration, we had huge budget surpluses; now we wallow in debt.
3. It is during his nightly wallow that he goes over to the dark side.
4. "It felt wonderful to wallow in self–pity for 10 days," he recalls.
5. Yet Shernaz makes it a point not to wallow in self pity. ‘‘I am not lonely.