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dicker
- /ˈdɪkə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈdɪkɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
verb dickers · dickering · dickered
- To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale. At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle. As Tarzan was dickering at Bouira for a mount he caught a brief glimpse of a man in European clothes eying him from the doorway of a native coffeehouse, […]
- To barter. Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.
- To fiddle. They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.
noun dickers
- A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. 1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d_MuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two
- A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares. to make a dicker
Similar: daker
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