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MICAWBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist
Synonyms:
Micawber; Wilkins Micawber
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
Context examples:
But Mr. Micawber being in difficulties, all considerations of private feeling must give way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Micawber's difficulties were an addition to the distressed state of my mind.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I cannot satisfy myself whether she told me that Mr. Micawber had been an officer in the Marines, or whether I have imagined it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At the appointed time in the evening, Mr. Micawber reappeared.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“My address,” said Mr. Micawber, “is Windsor Terrace, City Road. I—in short,” said Mr. Micawber, with the same genteel air, and in another burst of confidence—“I live there.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One dirty-faced man, I think he was a boot-maker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and call up the stairs to Mr. Micawber—“Come!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In my forlorn state I became quite attached to the family, and used to walk about, busy with Mrs. Micawber's calculations of ways and means, and heavy with the weight of Mr. Micawber's debts.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was nothing at all unusual for Mr. Micawber to sob violently at the beginning of one of these Saturday night conversations, and sing about Jack's delight being his lovely Nan, towards the end of it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But I never allowed myself to be prevailed upon to accept any invitation to eat and drink with them out of their stock (knowing that they got on badly with the butcher and baker, and had often not too much for themselves), until Mrs. Micawber took me into her entire confidence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I never thought, said Mrs. Micawber, when she came up, twin and all, to show me the apartment, and sat down to take breath, before I was married, when I lived with papa and mama, that I should ever find it necessary to take a lodger.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
