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Chicagoese

Chicagoese

English

Proper noun

Chicagoese

  1. The dialect of English spoken in Chicago.

Noun

Chicagoese (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) 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 the 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.