dicker

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɪkə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈdɪkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d_MuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.
  2. A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares. US,countable,uncountable
    — to make a dicker
动词 v.
  1. To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale. intransitive
    — At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle. As Tarzan was dickering at Bouira for a mount he caught a brief glimpse of a man in European clothes eying him from the doorway of a native coffeehouse, […]
  2. To barter. intransitive
    — Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.
  3. To fiddle. intransitive
    — They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.

词形变化

dickers present,singular,third-person dickering participle,present dickered participle,past dickered past dickers plural

词汇关系

近义词
daker
衍生词
dickerer dicker-rod

词源

词源 1
From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
词源 2
From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
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