Gamps [noun]

"I fuf-fuf-fuf, fail to see huh-huh-how that applies," said Joe Gamp, a lad with a serious impediment in his speech.

Now when I go, I take my husband's "storm" gamp and sit in a corner, hiding behind it.

Among all his humorous creations, Mrs. Gamp is perhaps the most intensely original and the most thoroughly individualised.

Mrs. Gamp herself, when roused, is under the same embarrassing misapprehension.

Here it is that Mrs. Gamp's distinctive characteristics begin to assert themselves conspicuously.

But, monopolist though Mrs. Gamp showed herself to be in her manner of holding forth, her talk never degenerated into a monologue.

Of my last and lightest venture, the Sairy Gamp, little more need be said.

Beneath this grey Italian sky some Italian gamp must keep off these Italian showers.

How did the 'grounds' of a teacup come to acquire that deep significance which they now possess for Mrs. Gamp and Betsy Prig?

In the night she tells me to be Mrs. Gamp, when I give her her lunch, and tries to be gay that I may keep up.