1 A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.  An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
In the 1950s and 1960s poopy actually described those who were like a poop, which meant a stupid person. The first appearance of poopy cited by the OED is one of these usages, from a 1957 issue of The New Yorker, which described âsome nice old poopy elder statesman.â.
Having a hairstyle named after you is one thing, but when people are still wearing it 200 years later, you must've made a splash. The pompadour is a hairstyle in which the front hair is wrapped over a pad or puffed up to heighten it. It was first worn by Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the Marquise de Pompadour, and mistress to King Louis XV of France.