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Nicker vs Dicker - What's the difference?

nicker | dicker |

As nouns the difference between nicker and dicker

is that nicker is pound sterling while dicker is the number or quantity of ten, particularly modifying hides or skins; a daker.

As verbs the difference between nicker and dicker

is that nicker is to make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse while dicker is to bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.

nicker

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(nicker)
  • (British, slang) Pound sterling.
    • This coat cost me 50 nicker .
    Synonyms
    * (pound sterling) pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
    • Synonyms
    * neigh * whinny

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
    • (Arbuthnot)
  • The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

    • 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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