pot-valiant

Now, poor old Mole had on occasions been what is called pot-valiant.

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

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

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

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.