irony vs wallow

irony

noun
  • An ironic statement. 

  • Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. 

  • Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play. 

  • Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist. 

  • The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the metal iron. 

  • The food had an irony taste to it. 

wallow

noun
  • An instance of wallowing. 

  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. 

  • A kind of rolling walk. 

adj
  • Tasteless, flat. 

verb
  • To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud. 

  • To move lazily or heavily in any medium. 

  • To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner. 

  • To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish. 

  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. 

How often have the words irony and wallow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )