half-childish-sounding

Updated: May 15, 2025

We have had a jolly little dinner and a jolly little talk." I seem to hear the old fellow's voice now, with its quaint accent, the "jollia leetle dinnera" and the "jol-lia leetle talka," with his half-childish-sounding vowel at the end of almost every word. Poor old Ruffiano! He has seen the end of his trouble this many and many a year.

David Christie Murray - In Direst Peril