pocket up

verb

To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person pockets up · participle present pocketing up · participle past pocketed up · past pocketed up

  1. idiomaticobsoletetransitiveTo receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.

    we pocketed up our loss

    1883, Anne Gilchrist, Mary Lamb
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    Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs

    c. 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]

    the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake

    1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub
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