micawber
World English Dictionary
Micawber (mɪˈkɔːbə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a person who idles and trusts to fortune | |
| [C19: after a character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield (1850)] | |
| Mi'cawberish | |
| —adj | |
| Mi'cawberism | |
| —n | |
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| micawber | |
noun | |
| fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist |
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Micawber
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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