Crossword clues for micawber
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a type of a childishly impractical man living in optimistic fantasy, from the character of Wilkins Micawber in Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1850).\n\n"I am at present, my dear Copperfield, engaged in the sale of corn upon commission. It is not an avocation of a remunerative description -- in other words it does not pay -- and some temporary embarrassments of a pecuniary nature have been the consequence. I am however delighted to add that I have now an immediate prospect of something turning up ...."\n
Wikipedia
Micawber is a 2001 ITV comedy drama series starring David Jason. It was written by John Sullivan, based upon the character of Wilkins Micawber from Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, although the storylines were original. Sullivan had originally written an adaptation of Dickens' novel which was rejected by the BBC in favour of the 1999 Adrian Hodges adaptation.
It was broadcast in four parts, the first part on Boxing Day 2001 and starred a number of well-known British actors and actresses.
Wilkins Micawber is a character in the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, who is noted for his poverty, effusive speech, and eternal optimism ("something will turn up").
Micawber may also refer to:
- Micawber (television), a 2001 ITV drama by John Sullivan starring David Jason, based on the Dickens character
- The name of Keith Richards' main Telecaster guitar
- Micawber, a children's picture book by John Lithgow
Usage examples of "micawber".
The springs of his decrepit Morris Minor, the one he called Micawber, complained as he eased it over humps and hollows.
Angus thanked him, piled the sacks into the boot of Mr Micawber and drove home with windows open, mouth shut and nostrils puckered.
He urged Micawber over the pot-holes, stopped with a lurch at his cottage and ran inside.
Driving Micawber back to Luachraich he found himself clamping his teeth hard enough to break them.
Dickens came into his own as he chirped and twittered and then dropped his voice to moan like a walrus, all the while both telling about this Micawber fellow and, apparently, emulating him.
It is true that the humour of Micawber is good literature and that the pathos of little Nell is bad.
So Angus returned Sheila to the paddock and drove the technicolor Mr Micawber to the big house.
So, on a Thursday evening Angus packed Mr Micawber, threw his sleeping bag in the back, and headed South.
At last, in gathering dusk, and with Jackson at the wheel, the whole gang bounced down Glen Fionart in the van to where Angus had left Micawber in a lay-by off the main road.
He sat in Micawber with the briefcase on the seat beside him and its contents spread on his knee.
And now, the following morning, which though grey, hinted at sunlight to come, he swung Micawber across the halfmoon of gravel in front of its facade, and confirmed the accuracy of the Rev.
Squaring up to this new test of initiative Angus drove Mr Micawber to Fioneriska House and then up the North track to the boathouse.
Micawber was obliged, in great trepidation, to run down to the water-butt in the backyard, and draw a basinful to lave her brow with.
MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgements from the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated on chairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene), Mrs.
Micawber, still more argumentatively, 'being equally out of the question, Mr.