Skimpole

Charles Dickens is, of course, notable for thinking up names to suit a characters’ nature or profession: Sloppy, Wopsle, Sweedlepipe, Pumblechook, Skimpole, Bumble and Toodle, to name but a few.

Though Skimpole brutally sends up Leigh Hunt, some critics have detected in his portrait features of Dickens's own character, which he sought to exorcise by self-parody.