dickering

Verb

dicker (third-person singular simple present dickers, present participle dickering, simple past and past participle dickered)

1. (intransitive) To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.
   • 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
2. (intransitive) To barter.
   • 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
3. (intransitive) To fiddle.
   • 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

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