Micawber /mɪˈkɒbər/noun 1verb 1forms 4 noun1 •A person who is poor but eternally optimistic, believing that "something will turn up", like the fictional character Wilkins Micawber in the 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.As it is I see Destitution and Despair ahead of me, and have begun an epitaph in the Micawber style for my future grave in the precincts of my native County's jail. — 1862 verb1 •To be optimistic that "something will turn up", in the style of Wilkins Micawber.To hope that the Administration and Congress will become Anti-National Bank, and thereby expect something, is Micawbering in dread earnest. — 1865 formsMicawbered · Micawbering · Micawbers · micawbers
