From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pocket \Pock"et\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pocketing}.]
1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change.
He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne.
2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently.
He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay.
{To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table.
{To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ''I must pocket up these wrongs.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affront \Af*front"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Affronted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Affronting}.] [OF. afronter, F. affronter, to confront, LL. affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See {Front}.]
1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.]
All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. --Holland.
That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. --Shak.
2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]
3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius? --Addison.
Syn: To insult; abuse; outrage; wound; illtreat; slight; defy; offend; provoke; pique; nettle.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affront \Af*front"\, noun [Cf. F. affront, fr. affronter.]
1. An encounter either friendly or hostile. [Obs.]
I walked about, admired of all, and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront. --Milton.
2. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
Offering an affront to our understanding. --Addison.
3. An offense to one's self-respect; shame. --Arbuthnot.
Syn: {Affront}, {Insult}, {Outrage}.
Usage: An affront is a designed mark of disrespect, usually in the presence of others. An insult is a personal attack either by words or actions, designed to humiliate or degrade. An outrage is an act of extreme and violent insult or abuse. An affront piques and mortifies; an insult irritates and provokes; an outrage wounds and injures.
Captious persons construe every innocent freedom into an affront. When people are in a state of animosity, they seek opportunities of offering each other insults. Intoxication or violent passion impels men to the commission of outrages. --Crabb.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult" [syn: {insult}]
verb
1: treat, mention, or speak to rudely; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" [syn: {diss}, {insult}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "affront": aggrieve, aspersion, atrocity, barb, beard, bell the cat, bid defiance, bite the bullet, brave, brazen, brazen out, breast, brickbat, bring before, bring forward, bring up, call names, call out, casus belli, challenge, confront, confront with, contempt, contumely, criticize, cut, dare, defamation, defy, despite, dig, dishonor, disoblige, dispraise, double-dare, dump, dump on, encounter, enormity, envisage, face, face out, face the music, face up, face up to, face with, fleer at, flout, flouting, front, gibe, gibe at, give offense, give offense to, give umbrage, grieve, humiliate, humiliation, hurl a brickbat, hurt, hurt the feelings, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeer at, jeering, jibe at, lay before, meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, meet squarely, mock, mockery, offend, offense, outdare, outrage, place before, present to, provocation, put down, put it to, put-down, raw nerve, red rag, run the gauntlet, scoff, scoff at, scream defiance, scurrility, set at defiance, set before, show fight, slap, slight, sore point, sore spot, speak out, speak up, stand up to, stare down, stem, sting, taunt, tender spot, treat with indignity, uncomplimentary remark, wound
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