Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dicker
Participle: dickered
Gerund: dickering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dicker |
| you | dicker |
| he;she;it | dickers |
| we | dicker |
| you | dicker |
| they | dicker |
Perfect
| I | have dickered |
| you | have dickered |
| he;she;it | has dickered |
| we | have dickered |
| you | have dickered |
| they | have dickered |
Past
| I | dickered |
| you | dickered |
| he;she;it | dickered |
| we | dickered |
| you | dickered |
| they | dickered |
Pluperfect
| I | had dickered |
| you | had dickered |
| he;she;it | had dickered |
| we | had dickered |
| you | had dickered |
| they | had dickered |
Future
| I | will dicker |
| you | will dicker |
| he;she;it | will dicker |
| we | will dicker |
| you | will dicker |
| they | will dicker |
Future Perfect
| I | will have dickered |
| you | will have dickered |
| he;she;it | will have dickered |
| we | will have dickered |
| you | will have dickered |
| they | will have dickered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dicker |
| you | dicker |
| he;she;it | dicker |
| we | dicker |
| you | dicker |
| they | dicker |
Perfect
| I | have dickered |
| you | have dickered |
| he;she;it | have dickered |
| we | have dickered |
| you | have dickered |
| they | have dickered |
Imperfect
| I | dickered |
| you | dickered |
| he;she;it | dickered |
| we | dickered |
| you | dickered |
| they | dickered |
Pluperfect
| I | had dickered |
| you | had dickered |
| he;she;it | had dickered |
| we | had dickered |
| you | had dickered |
| they | had dickered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dicker |
| you | would dicker |
| he;she;it | would dicker |
| we | would dicker |
| you | would dicker |
| they | would dicker |
Perfect
| I | would have dickered |
| you | would have dickered |
| he;she;it | would have dickered |
| we | would have dickered |
| you | would have dickered |
| they | would have dickered |
Imperative
| you | dicker |
| we | Let's dicker |
| you | dicker |
Verbs conjugated like 'dicker'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dicker'
bicker,
nicker,
sicker,
yicker,
cocker,
daiker,
diaper,
dice,
dick,
didder,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
Sample Sentences
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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, […] [1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Dancing Girl of Sidi Aissa”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 88:]
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In the brilliant sparkle of the morning when everything that was not superlatively blue was superlatively green, I dickered with a man who was taking a party up the inlet that he should drop me off at the village I was headed for. [1941, Emily Carr, chapter 6, in Klee Wyck:]
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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. [1848, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 2, in The Oak Openings:]
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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. [1981, Jack Cady, Singleton:]