pot-valiant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having bravado from drunkenness.
Example Sentences
- "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."