reckon up

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reckon up (third-person singular simple present reckons up, present participle reckoning up, simple past and past participle reckoned up)

  1. To add up; count up; compute the amount of; tally; come to an accounting of
    • 1851, The Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, page 60:
      How many things are there which I ought to reckon up, that I have neglected; and how many others are there, which, if I did reckon them up, would overwhelm me with confusion. The grocer has given me a subject that I shall do well to pursue.
  2. (informal, transitive) To harshly criticize.
    We reckoned him up pretty bad.
  3. (informal, transitive) To perceive (reckon) (someone or something).
    I reckoned him up as a troublemaker at first glance.