vagrancy,patter song

Under the pseudonym Boz, he wrote, “There is nothing we enjoy more than a little amateur vagrancy,” walking through London as though “the whole were an unknown region to our wandering mind.” Yet there was nothing remotely solitary about Dickens. One person who saw him in the highest spirits at a family party wrote that he “happily sang two or three songs, one the patter song, ‘The Dog’s Meat Man,’ and gave several successful imitations of the most distinguished actors of the day.”

vagrancy[va・gran・cy]

• 発音記号[véigrənsi]
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1 浮浪状態；放浪（生活）.

2 （考えや話の）脱線, 空想.

patter[pat・ter²]

• 発音記号[pǽtər]
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1 （手品・サーカス・芝居などの）早口の口上［せりふ］.

2 通語, 隠語.

━━[動](自)(他)（ほとんど意味も考えず）早口にしゃべる［朗唱する］.