dicker
Plural: dickers
Verb
Verb Forms: dickered, dickering, dickers
- To bargain or haggle over a price or terms.
- negotiate the terms of an exchange
- To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.
- To barter.
- To fiddle.
Noun
- A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.
- A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
Examples
- They tried to DICKER over the challenge, but the dictionary was final.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
Scrabble Score: 13
dicker: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddicker: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dicker: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
dicker: valid Words With Friends Word