dicker

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.

   • In the brilliant sparkle of the morning when everything that was not superlatively blue was superlatively green, I dickered with a man who was taking a party up the inlet that he should drop me off at the village I was headed for.
2. 2

   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.
3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.

      • The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves.
   2. 5

      A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.

      • to make a dicker

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• synonymdaker