It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 8th.
Today's word is dicker, spelled D-I-C-K-E-R.
Dicker is a verb.
To dicker is to talk or argue with someone about the conditions of a purchase agreement or contract.
Here's the word used in a sentence from the tri-state neighbor of Sioux Falls.
They haggled and dickered and bargained through a good number of dealerships.
The origins of the word dicker likely lie in an older word,
dicker, the noun referring to a quantity of 10 animal hides or skins.
The idea is that the verb arose from the bartering of and haggling over animal hides on the American frontier.
The noun, dicker, comes from decuria, the Latin word for a bundle of ten hides,
and ultimately from the Latin word dickem, meaning ten.
The word entered Middle English as diker, and by the 14th century had evolved to dicker.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.