Chicagoese

English

Etymology

Chicago +‎ -ese

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -iːz

Proper noun

Chicagoese

  1. The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.
    • 2020, Gerard Lafond, “Big Brother: One Last Try”, in Mom's Dead‎, →ISBN:
      […] almost everybody had wandered out into what would be called the "frunchroom" in Chicagoese.

Noun

Chicagoese pl (plural only)

  1. The people of Chicago; Chicagoans.
    • 1881, Edwin Hodder, Cities of the world, page 318:
      […] for even the undaunted faith and energy of the Chicagoese cannot greatly accelerate the processes of nature in making' trees, or robing their trunks with moss.
    • 1893 July 23, “The Mayor of Chicago and his Island”, in Journal of the American Medicla Association, page 186:
      The danger to the water supply is from that open sewer which the Chicagoese call the Chicago river.
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