Looking back,Iremember theaverage curateat homeas something between a eunuch and a snigger.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.4.

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer. To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two; I can tell a woman's age in half a minuteöand I do. But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can, Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Gama's song, Princess Ida, act1.