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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

... 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, insolvent, leavin' ...

— Riley Love-Lyrics • James Whitcomb Riley

... goes," said he. "It just fits in with my plans. I'm getting Jim to come in, too. I've realised on that stuff I bought, made over three thousand clear profit, and with it I've made a dicker for a property on the bench above Bonanza, Gold Hill they call it. I've a notion it's all right. Anyway, we'll tunnel in and see. You and Jim will have a quarter share each for your work, while I'll have an extra quarter for the capital I've put ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... into slim pastur', and I don't feel like stuffin' on 'em with bog hay in the winter. There's folks that dooz; but I don't. Now, brethren, I motion that we continner to give as much as five hundred dollars to the old Doctor, and make the best dicker we can with the new minister; and I'll clap ten dollars on to my pew-rent; and the Deacon there, if he's anything of a man, 'll do as much agin. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 • Various

... got it straight; at present he was content with his companion's explanation that the Socialists were the enemies of American institutions—could not be bought, and would not combine or make any sort of a "dicker." Mike Scully was very much worried over the opportunity which his last deal gave to them—the stockyards Democrats were furious at the idea of a rich capitalist for their candidate, and while they were changing they might possibly conclude that a Socialist ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... you know nothing about the matter, that you do not see how I behave, and I shall be treated ten times as badly as before," said poor Nat. "Tom Dicker, who has made two voyages, says that he had to go through as much as I have, and advised me to grin and bear it. Sometimes it is more than I feel I can do, and I am ...

— Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs - A Tale of Land and Sea • William H. G. Kingston

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