dicker
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
dicker (dickers, present participle dickering; past and past participle dickered)
- (intransitive) To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,
- 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.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 6,
- (transitive) To barter.
- 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings, Chapter 2,
- 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.
- 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings, Chapter 2,
dicker
- (obsolete) 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,
- 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 jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 171,
- 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.
- 1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1,
- (US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
- to make a dicker
- 1856, John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Panorama"
- “Grant that the North’s insulted, scorned, betrayed,
- O'erreached in bargains with her neighbor made,
- When selfish thrift and party held the scales
- For peddling dicker, not for honest sales,—
- Whom shall we strike? Who most deserves our blame?
- daker
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