verb
dicker
Dicker (verb) means to try to reach an agreement on a price by discussing it back and forth.
verb
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To try to reach an agreement on a price by discussing it back and forth.
"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."
— Emily Carr (1941)
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Etymology
Traces back through Middle English diker ("measure of ten") to Late Latin dacra ("a dicker"), which itself derives from Latin decuria ("a ten of something"), from decem ("ten").
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What is the meaning of dicker?
"dicker" (verb) means to try to reach an agreement on a price by discussing it back and forth.
What is another word for dicker?
Other words for "dicker" include bargain.
