According to
Flaubert's satirical
Dictionary of Received Ideas, "The basis of the
English language, as
Beaumarchais said.
Snigger in a superior way."
Also the name of the
Gollum character in
Bored of the Rings by the
Harvard Lampoon. A grey,
scaly creature with a cup
custard for a face. His mother left him in a twenty-four-hour
locker in an
enchanted forest when he was two. He was raised by kindly
rats. He was pinned down by
Jap fire in the War; and has an endless supply of
knock-knock jokes.
When Frito and Spam encounter him before the Ngaio Marsh and ask him what he is doing there, he replies: "Oh, well. Not much. I was just looking for a few old pop bottles to help pay for my sister-in-law's iron lung. Of course, ever since my operation I don't get around like I used to. Guess I'm just unlucky. Funny how life is, up and down, never can tell. Gosh, it sure is cold. I had to pawn my coat to buy plasma for my pet geese."
Got pushed into a tar pit (the Zazu Pits) as ballast for the One Ring.