请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 pot-valour
释义 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.
随便看

 

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 0:54:45