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potvaliant

potvaliant is the alternative form of pot-valiant.

Meaning of pot-valiant

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: […]...

Forms of potvaliant

comparativemore potvaliant
superlativemost potvaliant

Questions about potvaliant

What is potvaliant the alternative form of?
Potvaliant is the alternative form of pot-valiant.

Words near potvaliant in the dictionary

  1. pottymouths
  2. potulent
  3. POTUS
  4. POTUSes
  5. POTUSs
  6. potvaliant
  7. Potvin
  8. Potvins
  9. potwaller
  10. potwallers
  11. potwalling

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