dicker

n. 十个, 十张皮革, 小生意
vi. 做小生意, 易货, 还价

动词过去式:dickered 过去分词:dickered 现在分词:dickering 第三人称单数:dickers 

dick.er

v.intr.（不及物动词）
dick.ered,dick.er.ing,dick.ers
To bargain; barter.
讨价还价；进行易货贸易
n.（名词）
The act or process of bargaining.
小交易：讨价还价的行为或过程

来源：
Probably from dicker [a quantity of ten, ten hides]
可能源自 dicker [十的数量，十张兽皮]
from Middle English diker
源自 中古英语 diker
perhaps from Old English *dicor
可能源自 古英语 *dicor
from Latin decuria [set of ten]
源自 拉丁语 decuria [十个一套]
from decem [ten] * see dekô
源自 decem [十] *参见 dekô

<注释>Perhaps a desire to see history repeat itself has been at work in the case of an etymology suggested for the verbdicker, first recorded in 802with reference to horse trading and the haggling that accompanies it.In a work published in 848James Fenimore Cooper used the word with reference to frontier trade.This use would support a connection with the noundicker, which denotes a quantity of ten and was a common unit used in trading hides or furs. If the verbdicker originated in the fur trade, a parallel would exist with the noundicker. The noun may have come into the Germanic languages and hence to English by way of trade or tribute in furs between the Germanic peoples and the Roman Empire, with the Germanic word coming from the Latin worddecuria, .a group of ten men,. which in Late Latin was used as a measure of skins. The difficulty with this parallel isthat no existing evidence proves conclusively the derivation of the verbdicker from the noun dicker.
关于对动词dicker 提出的词源问题，也许是想看看历史重演的一种欲望在起作用， 此单词第一次记载是在802年，同马匹交易和与之伴随的价格争论有关。在848年出版的一本著作中，詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库珀根据边境贸易使用了这个词。这种使用将会支持与名词dicker 代表数量.十.并用于皮毛交易的联系。 如果动词dicker 起源于毛皮生意， 那么便会与名词dicker 一起并行存在。 该名词也许是随着来自于拉丁语decuria .十人一组.的日耳曼语单词一起（在拉丁语中它被用作皮革的计量单位），通过日耳曼人和罗马帝国之间毛皮交易或进贡的途径进入日耳曼语中，而从此以后进入英语中。 但是对于这种并行的困难是，没有现成的证据确凿地证明动词dicker 是从名词 dicker 中衍生来的