Micawber

/ mɪˈkɔːbə /

noun

C19: after a character in Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield (1850)

My Baronite can almost hear Mr. Micawber's voice choked by a sob as he declaimed this last sentence.

But the defeat of Heep and Micawber's departure belong to the days of my manhood.

How Mr. Micawber's heart would have glowed over this realisation in colossal figures of his cherished principle!

One pictures to oneself an eighteenth-century Mr. Micawber, buoyant and impecunious.

It is better to know Micawber than not to know the minor worries that arise out of knowing Micawber.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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