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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dik-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪk ər |
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Définition of dicker
Origin :- "haggle, bargain in a petty way," 1802, American English, perhaps from dicker (n.) "a unit or package of tens," especially hides (attested from late 13c.), perhaps from Latin decuria "parcel of ten" (supposedly a unit of barter on the Roman frontier; cf. German Decher "set of ten things"), from decem "ten" (see ten) on model of centuria from centum.
- verb bargain; argue about
- It looks to me as if 'twould be pretty good business to dicker with him.
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Yet the men had an ineradicable propensity to dicker among themselves.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- "I did not," confessed Mr. Dicker, with a mixture of shame and abhorrence.
- Extract from : « Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
- Dicker, I want you to bring in a bill to make Fastburg the only capital.
- Extract from : « Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
- "I'm a hustler on a dicker, and a hellion on junk," snapped the boss.
- Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
- Some other team in the American league trying to make a dicker for you?
- Extract from : « Baseball Joe Around the World » by Lester Chadwick
- I know him; that is to say, I want to dicker with you, and through you with Jones.
- Extract from : « The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 4, 1886-1900 » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- For his services, Mr. Dicker received from the Lords of the Treasury the sum of 500l.
- Extract from : « Her Majesty's Mails » by William Lewins
- Published tariffs were only the starting point for "higgle" and "dicker."
- Extract from : « Railroads: Rates and Regulations » by William Z. Ripley
- Or carrying a cheap-jack Bradford agent to make a dicker in wool?
- Extract from : « A Case in Camera » by Oliver Onions
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