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Wallow a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wallow a. Now dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.) Forms: 1 wealʓ, 3 walh, 5 walhwe, walow, 6 walowe, 9 wallow. See also WAUGH a. [OE. wealʓ (*walʓ) = LG. walg, insipid (cf. MDu. walghe ‘nausea, fastidium’), Norw. valg tasteless:—OTeut. *walwo-:—pre-Teut. *wolqwo-.

1   The disyllabic wallow represents the inflected form wealʓ-; in the uninflected form the final (γ) became (χ), yielding the mod. northern WAUGH.]

2   Tasteless, insipid; sickly.

3 c. 897.  K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., lviii. 447. Se wearma welð on godum cræftum, ðylæs he sie wealʓ for wlæcnesse, & forðæm weorðe utaspiwen.

4 c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 35. Þi muð is bitter, & walh al þat tu cheowest.

5 1825.  Brockett, N. C. Words, Wallow, insipid.

6 1886.  S. W. Linc. Gloss., s.v., Oh, mother, how wallow this here bread is!—Why, bairn, I’d gotten no salt to put in it; it maks it a bit wallowish.

7   b.  Comb.: † wallow-sweet a., ? cloyingly sweet.

8 c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 515/1. Walhwe swete [Winch. walow-swete], supra in bytter swete.

9 1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Pref. E e iij b. The olde holsome wyne … [doth] offend theyr dronken taste, bycause yt is not so walow swete but drynketh more of ye verder. Ibid. (1534), Treat. Passion, Wks. 1274/1. But the walowe sweete pleasure of that fruite, soone tourned to displeasure and payne.

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