Chicagoese

English

Etymology

Chicago +‎ -ese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːz

Proper noun

Chicagoese

1. The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.

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.