pot-valiant

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English

Alternative forms

potvaliant

Adjective

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

Having bravado from drunkenness.
- 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: J Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J Robinson, , →OCLC, chapter V, page 94:
  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.
- 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, →OCLC, pages 204–205:
  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 Honour of Gabriel”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 286:
  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.

Synonyms

in one's armour

Related terms

pot-valiancy

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