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Micawber
/ mɪˈkɔːbə /
noun
- a person who idles and trusts to fortune
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Derived Forms
- Miˈcawberism, noun
- Miˈcawberish, adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Micawber1
C19: after a character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield (1850)
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Example Sentences
My Baronite can almost hear Mr. Micawber's voice choked by a sob as he declaimed this last sentence.
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But the defeat of Heep and Micawber's departure belong to the days of my manhood.
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How Mr. Micawber's heart would have glowed over this realisation in colossal figures of his cherished principle!
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One pictures to oneself an eighteenth-century Mr. Micawber, buoyant and impecunious.
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It is better to know Micawber than not to know the minor worries that arise out of knowing Micawber.
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