Chicagoese
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iːz
Proper noun
[edit]Chicagoese
- The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.
- 2020, Gerard Lafond, “Big Brother: One Last Try”, in Mom's Dead[1], →ISBN:
- […] almost everybody had wandered out into what would be called the "frunchroom" in Chicagoese.
Noun
[edit]Chicagoese pl (plural only)
- 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.