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Webster 1913 Edition
Pot-valiant
Pot′-valˊiant
,Adj.
Having the courage given by drink.
Smollett.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pot-valiant
POT-VAL'IANT
,Adj.
Definition 2024
pot-valiant
pot-valiant
See also: potvaliant
English
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Adjective
pot-valiant (comparative more pot-valiant, superlative most pot-valiant)
- (archaic) Having bravado from drunkenness.
- 1831, Sir Walter Scott, The Surgeon's Daughter, ch. 7:
- "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."
- 1900, Fergus Hume, The Bishop's Secret, ch. 35:
- He looked up as the horse approached, but did not run away, being rendered pot-valiant by the liquor he had drunk earlier in the evening.
- 1831, Sir Walter Scott, The Surgeon's Daughter, ch. 7: