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pot-valiant

pot-valiant adjective: having bravado from drunkenness.

Adjective

pot-valiant (comparative more pot-valiant, superlative most pot-valiant)

  1. Having bravado from drunkenness.
    • 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.1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […]...
    • You know the sort of fellows that we are obliged to content ourselves with—they get drunk—grow pot-valiant—enlist over night, and repent next morning.1827, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume II (The Surgeon’s Daughter), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall...

Forms of pot-valiant

comparativemore pot-valiant
superlativemost pot-valiant
alternative formpotvaliant

Questions about pot-valiant

What does pot-valiant mean?
Pot-valiant means having bravado from drunkenness.
What part of speech is pot-valiant?
Pot-valiant is an adjective.

Words near pot-valiant in the dictionary

  1. pot-shooting
  2. pot-shoots
  3. pot-shot
  4. pot-shots
  5. pot-valiancy
  6. pot-valiant
  7. pot-valor
  8. pot-waller
  9. pot-wallers
  10. pot-walloner
  11. pot-walloners

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