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# Word of The Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-18/
- Published: 2024-07-08T18:15:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-08T18:15:07.000Z
- Author: The Editor
- Tags: General

**Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 8, 2024 is:**

**dicker** • \\DIK-er\\ • *verb*  

To dicker is to talk or argue with someone about the conditions of a purchase, agreement, or contract.

// My favorite thing about flea markets is *dickering* over prices.

[See the entry >](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dicker?ref=goodoil.news)

**Examples:**  

“They haggled and *dickered* and bargained through a good number of dealerships.” — Terry Woster, *Tri-State Neighbor* (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), 7 Dec. 2023

**Did you know?**  

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 on the [American frontier](https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-frontier?ref=goodoil.news). 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*.