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Chicagoese

Chicagoese proper noun: the dialect of English spoken in Chicago.

Proper noun

Chicagoese

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

Noun

Chicagoese pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The people of Chicago; Chicagoans.
    • […] 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.1881, Edwin Hodder, Cities of the world, page 318
    • The danger to the water supply is from that open sewer which the Chicagoese call the Chicago river.1893 July 23, “The Mayor of Chicago and his Island”, in Journal of the American Medicla Association, page 186

Origin of Chicagoese

From Chicago + -ese.

Words that rhyme with Chicagoese

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Questions about Chicagoese

What does Chicagoese mean?
Chicagoese means the dialect of English spoken in Chicago.
What part of speech is Chicagoese?
Chicagoese can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Chicagoese in the dictionary

  1. Chicago-style pizza
  2. Chicago-style pizzas
  3. Chicago-style relish
  4. Chicagoan
  5. Chicagoans
  6. Chicagoese
  7. Chicagoesque
  8. Chicagoland
  9. Chicagolander
  10. Chicagolanders
  11. Chicagorilla

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Chicagoese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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