dicker
verb /ˈdɪkə(r)/
/ˈdɪkər/
[intransitive] (especially North American English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dicker | /ˈdɪkə(r)/ /ˈdɪkər/ |
| he / she / it dickers | /ˈdɪkəz/ /ˈdɪkərz/ |
| past simple dickered | /ˈdɪkəd/ /ˈdɪkərd/ |
| past participle dickered | /ˈdɪkəd/ /ˈdɪkərd/ |
| -ing form dickering | /ˈdɪkərɪŋ/ /ˈdɪkərɪŋ/ |
- dicker (with somebody) (over something) to argue about or discuss something with somebody, especially in order to agree on a price synonym bargainTopics Opinion and argumentc2Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally US): perhaps from obsolete dicker ‘set of ten (hides)’, used as a unit of trade, based on Latin decem ‘ten’.