dacker
Americanverb (used without object)
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to totter or stagger.
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to waver or shake.
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to saunter; move slowly or idly.
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to vacillate; act irresolutely or indecisively.
Etymology
Origin of dacker
1625–35; perhaps < early Dutch daeckeren to flutter, vibrate, Middle Dutch dakeren to wave, flutter
Example Sentences
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Dacker went 2 for 3 in the game and narrowly missed his second homer with his eighth-inning double.
From Seattle Times
Whereupon Finn told them the whole story of the Gilla Dacker's doings from beginning to end.
From Project Gutenberg
They held council, therefore; and the resolution they came to was to return to the rock at the spot where they had turned aside from the track of the Gilla Dacker, and to begin their search anew from that.
From Project Gutenberg
Finn and the others now turned round again, with intent to speak to the Gilla Dacker and bring him and his people into the tents; but much did they marvel to find them all gone.
From Project Gutenberg
The Gilla Dacker and his great horse and the fifteen nobles of the Land of Promise had disappeared in an instant; and neither Finn himself nor any of his chiefs ever saw them afterwards.
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