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dicker

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Is dicker a Scrabble word?

Yes, dicker is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 13 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of dicker?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.Examples: "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, […]"; "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."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To barter.Examples: "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."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To fiddle.Examples: "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."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.Examples: "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."; "The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves."countableobsoleteuncountable

2. (US) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.Examples: "to make a dicker"; "“Grant that the North’s insulted, scorned, betrayed, O'erreached in bargains with her neighbor made, When selfish thrift and party held the scales For peddling dicker, not for honest sales,— Whom shall we strike? Who most deserves our blame?"UScountableuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "dicker"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "dicker"?

Scrabble
13 points
D2
I1
C3
K5
E1
R1
Words With Friends
14 points
D2
I1
C4
K5
E1
R1

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