reckon up

English

Verb

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.