"pot-valiant" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 94:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1827, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume II (The Surgeon’s Daughter), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, pages 204–205:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1900, Fergus Hume, “The Honour of Gabriel”, in Bishop Pendle: Or, The Bishop’s Secret, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Rand, McNally & Company, →OCLC, page 286:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Having bravado from drunkenness."
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          "word": "pot-valiancy"
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          "word": "Dutch courage"
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          "word": "liquid courage"
        }
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          "word": "in one's armour"
        },
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          "word": "potvaliant"
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          "ref": "1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 94:",
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      "word": "in one's armour"
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    {
      "word": "potvaliant"
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