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Micawber

PRONUNCIATION: (mih-KAW-buhr) http://wordsmith.org/words/micawber.mp3 MEANING: noun: An eternal optimist. ETYMOLOGY: After Wilkins Micawber, an incurable optimist in the novel David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. His schemes for making money never materialize, but he’s always hopeful that “something will turn up”. … Continue reading

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