单词 | chicagoese |
释义 | Chicagoeseadj.n. A. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the city of Chicago, its inhabitants, or the speech or language used there. Cf. Chicagoan adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in U.S.A. > others Philadelphian1773 Chicagoese1855 San Franciscan1886 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > towns or cities Bostonian1698 Chicagoese1855 New Orleanian1855 Chicagoan1861 Cantabrigian1887 Angeleno1909 Los Angeleno1960 1855 Knickerbocker Sept. 315 Any thing that offers a speculation is called in the Chicagoese language ‘a good thing’, and they are going about doing ‘good things’ from morning till night. 1874 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 380 The Telephone is an improvement upon the telegraph. It is the work of Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago... The invention is Chicagoese all over. 1919 Hotel World 11 Jan. 7/2 Grecian, Egyptian and Chicagoese danseusing comes high as well as low in both costume and performance, but the boys are always willing to pay for it. 1997 Daily Herald 25 Nov. i. 11 He remodeled his summer home into a grand castle in the Chicagoese neighborhood of Grand Beach. B. n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > other towns or cities Bostonian1682 Philadelphian1744 Bostonese1785 Nantucketer1788 Chicagoan1851 Angeleno1857 New Orleanian1862 bean-eater1867 Chicagoese1868 Los Angeleno1871 San Franciscan1875 Los Angelena1883 Angelena1905 Orleanian1935 1868 Leavenworth (Kansas) Evening Bull. 18 Jan. 2/1 The Chicagoese propose to rebuild Farwell Hall, recently destroyed by a fire, without delay. 1872 Albany Law Jrnl. 6 Jan. 3/2 Congress is certain to adopt some of the devices..for the relief of the ruined traders of Chicago. The best way, perhaps,..is to pass a special statute for the Chicagoese. 1893 Amer. Gas Light Jrnl. 22 May 737/2 The Committee of Arrangements was represented by a half dozen spry Chicagoese, all very much ‘up to date’. 1919 Harvard Mag. Nov. 9/1 A man in Chicago has made a discovery... The author of The Young Visitors by Daisy Ashford is, oddly enough, Daisy Ashford. ‘All this controversy is silly’ says the Chicagoese. 2. The speech or language characteristic of Chicago, esp. considered as forthright or lacking sophistication. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > varieties of Midland1785 New England1839 Chicagoese1883 Bostonese1888 New Yorkese1888 Brooklynese1893 Western American1901 Manhattanese1908 Harlemese1928 southern1935 jive1938 Yinglish1951 lockjaw1965 Valley Girl1982 Valspeak1982 Valleyspeak1983 Yat1984 1883 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 18 Sept. This, rendered into Chicagoese, means: ‘Johnny Mulligan, the statesman, went into Mulhooley's saloon, and as no one would fight him, he cleaned out the whole crowd.’ 1887 Life 3 Nov. 242/2 ‘Lady friends’ as Mr. Howells has it, is better than lady-friends, as Col. Eugene Fields would probably write it, in his pure-blooded, registered Chicagoese. 1893 Critic (N.Y.) 16 Sept. 187/1 Why, possessing so pretty a word [sc. pleasaunce],..should we tolerate the monster ‘plaisance’..? Is this another phase of Chicago-ese? 1901 Goose-quill Nov. 25 Tagends of French, Italian, Yiddish, Chicagoese, split infinitives,..and the like, all go to make her style unique—uniquely atrocious. She writes Chicagoese as naturally as a horse eats oats. 1961 N. Algren Chicago: City on Make Introd. 13 The jargon-tongue of Chicagoese as spoken in our Saturday night dance-halls. 2014 Sunday Independent (Ireland) (Nexis) 16 Mar. 6 Atlas wants to build the Chicago Spire vision. That's ‘the only reason we're interested in this piece of dirt’, said Ivankovich, in straight-shooting Chicagoese. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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