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Dickery vs Dicker - What's the difference?

dickery | dicker |

As nouns the difference between dickery and dicker

is that dickery is dickishness, dickish behavior while dicker is (obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.

As a verb dicker is

to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.

dickery

English

Noun

(-)
  • Dickishness, dickish behavior.

    • dicker

    English

    Verb

  • to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale
  • to barter
  • * Cooper
    • Ready to dicker and to swap.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.
  • * Heywood
    • A dicker of cowhides.
  • * 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.
    • to make a dicker
  • * Whittier
    • For peddling dicker , not for honest sales.

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