英语词汇dicker的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	dicker
词源	dicker. Deriving from decem, “10,” decuria was the Latin word for the bundle of 10 animal hides that Caesar’s legions made a unit of trade in Britain and elsewhere. This word even- tually was corrupted to dicker. On the frontier in America the haggling and petty bargaining over dickers of pelts became the meaning of the word itself.
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