What's the difference between dicker and nicker?

Dicker


Definition:

  • (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.
  • (n.) A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares; as, to make a dicker.
  • (v. i. & t.) To negotiate a dicker; to barter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think I’m just one of those kinds of people.” Selina Dicker, a 38-year-old from London who works in property finance, is a little bit different in that she’s the group’s only woman.
  • (2) Richard Dicker, head of international justice at Human Rights Watch in New York, said Libya's actions over the two suspects would be the litmus test of its commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
  • (3) It is a legal avenue open to states with those laws on their books and the political will,” Dicker said.
  • (4) They have the first bite of the apple,” said Richard Dicker, the director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice programme.
  • (5) The first was a teenage boy caught foraging for stale bread in an empty compound whose constantly shifting story suggested to the British that he might have been an insurgent sympathiser or even a "dicker" – a watchman providing a steady stream of intelligence on the movements of foreign forces.
  • (6) It’s because they don’t have the same language skills or cultural understanding or as much experience.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From left, David Hamilton, Jagged Globe’s Everest leader, with clients Dan Fredinburg, Michele Battelli and Selina Dicker.
  • (7) "Moscow and Beijing can veto a resolution but they can't suppress the desire for justice by the Syrian people and the dozens of governments that stood for their rights," said Richard Dicker, international justice director at Human Rights Watch.

Nicker


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
  • (v. t.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.

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