Friday word: Micawber

[med_cat]

Micawber [mih-KAW-buhr]

(n.)

- An eternal and unrelenting optimist.
 

Eponym of “Wilkins Micawber” who was the incurable optimist in Charles Dickens’ novel “David Copperfield.”
 

Used in a sentence:

“One’s attitude is the filter that determines your personal experience as you interact with life, which is why I choose to be a Micawber.”


 

(from The Grandiloquent Word of the Day)
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Comments

[full_metal_ox]

I usually read 1word1day from my own reading page, but your buttery gold, beige, and peach color scheme, with an implied pervading note of mellow afternoon sunlight, recalls certain nineteenth-century American calico print fabrics, as well as the muted harmonies of paper currency and old postage stamps.

[med_cat]

I take it you like it, then ;)