dicker

verb

🔊/ˈdɪkə(r)/

🔊/ˈdɪkər/

[intransitive] (especially North American English)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they dicker	🔊/ˈdɪkə(r)/ 🔊/ˈdɪkər/
he / she / it dickers	🔊/ˈdɪkəz/ 🔊/ˈdɪkərz/
past simple dickered	🔊/ˈdɪkəd/ 🔊/ˈdɪkərd/
past participle dickered	🔊/ˈdɪkəd/ 🔊/ˈdɪkərd/
-ing form dickering	🔊/ˈdɪkərɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈdɪkərɪŋ/

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dicker (with somebody) (over something) to argue about or discuss something with somebody, especially in order to agree on a price讨价还价；议价；讲价 synonym bargainTopics Opinion and argumentc2
Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally US): perhaps from obsolete dicker ‘set of ten (hides)’, used as a unit of trade, based on Latin decem ‘ten’.