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English
Verb
pocket up (third-person singular simple present pockets up, present participle pocketing up, simple past and past participle pocketed up)
- (idiomatic, transitive, obsolete) To receive (an insult, an affront, etc.) without open resentment, or without seeking redress.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs
1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub:the two unbelievers began to gather and pocket up their mistake