Dicier vs Dicker - What's the difference?
dicier | dicker |
(dicey)
Fraught with danger.
Of uncertain, risky outcome.
* 2012 , Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver (editors), They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World ,
Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.
* 1992 , Vincent O'Sullivan, The Witness Man'', in ''Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories ,
* 2011 , Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social ,
(slang) Nauseating, rank.
* 2011 , Keemholems Ojei, The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers ,
to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale
to barter
* Cooper
(obsolete) The number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.
* Heywood
* 1866 , The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 1, page 171
(US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
* Whittier
As an adjective dicier
is (dicey).As a verb dicker is
to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.As a noun dicker is
(obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.dicier
English
Adjective
(head)dicey
English
Adjective
(er)page 161,
- Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey .
page 95,
- As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn?t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
page xv,
- If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
page 101,
- Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.
dicker
English
Verb
- Ready to dicker and to swap.
Noun
(en noun)- A dicker of cowhides.
- to make a dicker
- For peddling dicker , not for honest sales.