serio-joking

Updated: May 26, 2025

If you say a word about it, I shall be angry, So no nonsense, please!" The phrase underlined was a quotation from Dyce himself, who often used it, in serio-joking tone, when he had occasion to reprove Mrs. Woolstan for some act or word which jarred with his system.

George Gissing - Our Friend the Charlatan