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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective archaic Having
bravado from drunkenness.
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Examples
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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.
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By the time they had reached the coffee she was feeling happy and slightly pot-valiant.
Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974
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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
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"That's what I say," Jim Cal seconded in a voice which had become pot-valiant.
Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan
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Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant.
The Flirt 1912
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Sansome, by now very pot-valiant, swaggered alongside.
The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909
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Bethink you, I am now the shell of five mint-juleps plus, and am pot-valiant.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907
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Hudson's Bay Company, who took his captivity mighty ill and grew prodigious pot-valiant over his cups.
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There be some pot-valiant braggarts that defy the law.
Lords of the North 1903
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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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