Meanings
- 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
- pluralplural onlyThe people of Chicago; Chicagoans.
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 1861 more example
[…] 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
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Cite this entry
Chicagoese. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicagoese
“Chicagoese.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicagoese. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chicagoese,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chicagoese.
Source: Chicagoese on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.