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ˌpot-ˈvalour
[f. as prec. + valour.]
Valour or courage induced by drink; ‘Dutch courage’.
1627Feltham Resolves i. [ii.] lxxxiii. 77 To see how Pot-valour thunders in a Tauerne, and appoints a Duell. a1700Dryden Ovid's Art of Love i. 664 Pot-valour only serves to fright the fair. 1857Trollope 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.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. ii, Suppose champagne flowing; with pot-valorous speech. 1872C. Gibbon For the King xv, Hodge was already pot-valorous. |