Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Courageous through drink; fighting-drunk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the courage given by drink.

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  • adjective archaic Having bravado from drunkenness.

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Examples

  • Her husband was ‘pot-valiant,’ he feared her not at the moment, nor had he then much reason, for she instantly turned the whole force of her anger another way.

    Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

  • By the time they had reached the coffee she was feeling happy and slightly pot-valiant.

    Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974

  • By his side was a tankard, half-filled with stale sack, and in his hand he clutched a gold piece as though he had had an intimation it would be safer there than elsewhere on his person during the pot-valiant sleep he had deliberately courted.

    Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

  • "That's what I say," Jim Cal seconded in a voice which had become pot-valiant.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant.

    The Flirt 1912

  • Sansome, by now very pot-valiant, swaggered alongside.

    The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant.

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Hudson's Bay Company, who took his captivity mighty ill and grew prodigious pot-valiant over his cups.

    Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

  • There be some pot-valiant braggarts that defy the law.

    Lords of the North 1903

  • They gathered behind walls or flickered across the open in shouting masses, and were pot-valiant in artillery.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

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