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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-39/
- Published: 2024-09-01T18:15:47.000Z
- Updated: 2024-09-01T18:30:01.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

The word for today is…

dicker (noun, verb, noun): 

*noun*

: the number or quantity of 10 especially of hides or skins

*verb*

: bargain

*noun*

1: barter

2: an act or session of bargaining

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dicker?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The origins of the verb dicker likely lie in an older dicker, the noun referring to a quantity of ten animal hides or skins. The idea is that the verb arose from the bartering of, and haggling over, animal hides. The noun dicker comes from decuria, the Latin word for a bundle of ten hides, and ultimately from the Latin word decem, meaning "ten." The word entered Middle English as dyker and by the 14th century had evolved to dicker. 

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