" accosts "

[Verb]  | "ac*cost" | \ ə-ˈkȯst \

1: to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way

Origin: 1567 ;

 Borrowed from Middle French accoster, going back to Old French, "to go alongside of, sail along the coast of, place (a vessel) beside another" (sʼacoster a "to take a place beside, draw near, support"), probably going back to Vulgar Latin *accostāre, from Latin ad- {see: |ad-|ad-} + costa "rib, side" {mat|coast:1|} ;

  * Note : A common, polysemous verb in Anglo-French, though the English verb, which only begins to appear in the late 16th century, is apparently borrowed directly from Continental French. The sense "to approach and speak to" only appears in French in the early 17th century, about the same time that it appears in English.;

[Verb]  | "accosts" 

[Verb]  | "accost"