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pocket up

pocket up verb: to receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.

Verb

pocket up (third-person singular simple present pockets up, present participle pocketing up, simple past and past participle pocketed up)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete, transitive) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
    • Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongsc. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub

Forms of pocket up

third-person singular presentpockets up
present participlepocketing up
past participlepocketed up
pastpocketed up

Questions about pocket up

What does pocket up mean?
Pocket up means to receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
What part of speech is pocket up?
Pocket up is a verb.
What is the past tense of pocket up?
The past tense of pocket up is pocketed up.

Words near pocket up in the dictionary

  1. pocket trumpet
  2. pocket trumpets
  3. pocket Ts
  4. pocket universe
  5. pocket universes
  6. pocket up
  7. pocket veto
  8. pocket vetoes
  9. pocket vetos
  10. pocket watch
  11. pocket watched

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