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dicker verb [ ˈdɪkə ]

• engage in petty argument or bargaining.
• "Sam advised him not to dicker over the extra fee"
• toy or fiddle with.
• "the company was still dickering with its pricing schedule"
Origin: early 19th century (originally US): perhaps from obsolete dicker ‘set of ten (hides’), used as a unit of trade, based on Latin decem ‘ten’.


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