Dicker vs Higgle - What's the difference?
dicker | higgle | Related terms |
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
(archaic) To hawk or peddle provisions.
(archaic) To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Dicker is a related term of higgle.
As verbs the difference between dicker and higgle
is that dicker is to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale while higgle is (archaic) to hawk or peddle provisions.As a noun dicker
is (obsolete) the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.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
* ----higgle
English
Verb
(higgl)- To truck and higgle for a private good. — Emerson.