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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Micawber, Wilkins Micawber(noun)

    fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Micawber

    a character in "David Copperfield," a schemer whose schemes regularly came to grief, yet who always wakes up after his depression, and hopes something will turn up to his advantage.


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