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noun

Dicker n.

The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves. (Obs.) "A dicker of cowhides."

A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker. (U.S.) "For peddling dicker, not for honest sales."

verb

Dicker v. i. & v. t. To negotiate a dicker; to barter. (U.S.) "Ready to dicker. and to swap."

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Etymology of 'Dicker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dicker" Quotes from Famous Books

... "We won't dicker over trifles. All the more so since you don't deceive me, nor I you. There's a great demand for women now. What would you say, Mister Horizon, if I offered you some ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... daily and nightly, for nearly six months for that object, and in my anxiety over the matter I made a dicker with a man who was to embark at the same time—that, if he should be lucky enough to get the flagship and I should be appointed to some other ship, I would give him a money consideration and request the commander to permit us to exchange. This was a break in ...

— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... "Makes 'em feel safer. Grab 'em when they kin. If overtook by a stouter force they're in shape fer a dicker. The chief stands up an' sings like a bird—'bout the moon an' the stars an' the brooks an' the rivers an' the wrongs o' the red man, but it wouldn't be wuth the song o' a barn swaller less he can show ye that the wimmen are all right. If they've been treated proper, ...

— In the Days of Poor Richard • Irving Bacheller

... better, a letter comes to hand Astin' how I 'd like to dicker fer some Illinois land— "The feller that had owned it," it went ahead to state, "Had jest deceased, ...

— Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems • James Whitcomb Riley

... more trouble I may have with it. No knowin' what that man may take it into his head to do in Jonesville or China. But prayer-wheels! little did I think when I stood at the altar with Josiah Allen that I should have to dicker ...

— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

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