Dicker vs Dicked - What's the difference?
dicker | dicked |
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
(dick)
(vulgar) Having a specified kind of penis.
* 2005 , Catherine Anderson, My Sunshine (page 402)
* 2001 , Stefan Fatsis, Word Freak (page 191)
(vulgar, slang) In trouble.
As verbs the difference between dicker and dicked
is that dicker is to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale while dicked is (dick).As a noun dicker
is (obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.As an adjective dicked is
(vulgar) having a specified kind of penis.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.
Anagrams
* ----dicked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- "You're a limp-dicked excuse for a man."
- That's really frustrating when you have a chance for that glory, to win a game where somebody's luckier than a two-dicked dog, and you just can't do it.
- He is really dicked . His car broke down and today is his first day on his new job.
