pompholygous,a.|pɒmˈfɒlɪgəs| [f. as next + -ous.] Affected with pompholyx. Also fig. puffed up. 1855Tennyson in Ld. Tennyson Mem. I. xix. 410 That mighty man, that pompholygous, broad-blown Apollodorus, the gifted X.1858Mayne Expos.Lex., Pompholygodes,..pompholygous.