ˌpot-ˈvalour
[f. as prec. + valour.]
Valour or courage induced by drink; ‘Dutch courage’.
| 1627 Feltham Resolves i. [ii.] lxxxiii. 77 To see how Pot-valour thunders in a Tauerne, and appoints a Duell. a 1700 Dryden Ovid's Art of Love i. 664 Pot-valour only serves to fright the fair. 1857 Trollope Three Clerks ix, Who remembered, with all the energy of pot valor, that he was not a mere clerk. |
So pot-ˈvalorous a. = pot-valiant.
| 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. ii, Suppose champagne flowing; with pot-valorous speech. 1872 C. Gibbon For the King xv, Hodge was already pot-valorous. |