Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Alternative form of pot-valiant.
Examples
“Perhaps he had some inchoate drunken plan of seeking her when he put to sea with the potvaliant captain of the”
“Then the dignified Lovaina, repressing the oaths of potvaliant skippers, putting her finger to her lips when a bald assertion was imminent, said impressively:”
“Those leaden blasts that had swept the room from the first floors of the opposite houses had ceased, and not one potvaliant marksman of them all was to be seen; but the street was full of hussars, and directly beneath, mounted on an excited horse, Stampoff was giving furious orders which evidently demanded an energetic storming of the hotel entrance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘potvaliant’.
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Uncommon words for common occurances
Weird terms and holophrases for various conditions, circumstances, and pursuits of quotidian life
aegrotat, kakistocracy, kerdomeletia, oniochalasia, adoxography, belaud, schadenfreude, hygeiolatry, limen, jamais, lypophrenia, potvaliant and 7 more...
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List of Silly Words
A list of silly, strange, and generally unusual words.
decemnovenarianize, mammothrept, spaneria, spanogyny, lexiphanic, allorgasmia, marcous, leighster, psaphonic, exsibiliation, paralian, phobophobia and 24 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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Unsavoury Types
insults, epithets, etc.
drotchel, drossel, drazel, flutch, lollard, scobberlotcher, ragabash, faineant, cad, buffoon, martinet, tosspot and 116 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Words.
Word.
Hoyden, claustrophilia, anergy, hadeharia, bluestocking, mawmsey, scoteography, sophomania, apanthropy, cuniculous, anaxiphilia, antifluke and 47 more...
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From the Word Museum
A selection of Words from the book, The Word Museum: The most remarkable English words ever forgotten compiled by Jeffrey Kacirk.
Also see sionnach's list Discovered in the Word Museumabcedarian, abracadabrant, aflunters, aforcing, anywhen, babies-in-the-eyes, back-friend, barlihood, beblubbered, begrumpled, begrutten, bibitory and 73 more...
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sionnach bold or brave when drunk; belligerent when inebriated. Jan 2, 2008