Meaning of pot-valiant | Babel Free

Definitions

Having bravado from drunkenness.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“"I don't care that mush for 'er law," he said, and with a sudden change⟳ to ferocity ordered the barmaid to "fillit uppergen." The effect of this potation was to make⟳ Cripps pot valiant to the last⟳ degree.”

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