Definitions for pot-valiant

pot-valiant pot-val·iant

Spelling: [pot-val-yuh nt]
IPA: /ˈpɒtˌvæl yənt/

Pot-Valiant is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 434 anagrams from letters in pot-valiant (-aailnopttv).

Definitions for pot-valiant

adjective

  1. brave only as a result of being drunk.

Origin of pot-valiant

First recorded in 1635-45

Examples for pot-valiant

A hero is bold but temperate: a demagogue blustering and pot-valiant.

His eyes wore an expression of profound misery, but he preserved steadily other portions of a pot-valiant air.

I know you; twenty to one, but you will plead a drunkenness; you are used to be pot-valiant.

But in the midst of his brooding, Teppich and the fat Sturgeon assailed the nunnery gate with pot-valiant blows and shouts.

They gathered behind walls or flickered across the open in shouting masses, and were pot-valiant in artillery.

An early adventure was to force a pot-valiant parson, who had drunk a cup too much at a wedding, into a rarely farcical situation.

And when next they met, the pot-valiant squireen would chuckle proudly, "Faith, yon was a night."

In a bar-room brawl with two pot-valiant cowboys, he had come out supremely "on top."

Word Value for pot-valiant
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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