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pot-valour
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 Thre...
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pot-valiant
ˌpot-ˈvaliant, a. (n.) [f. pot n.1 2 b + valiant.] Valiant or courageous through the influence of drink.1641 Tatham Distracted State iii. i, You are pot-valiant, sir, it seems. 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. 29 May, Like a man who has drunk himself pot-valiant. 1845 Miall in Nonconf. V. 181 As pot-valiant...
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