schemie

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Adjective 1.4 Usage notes 1.5 Quotations 1.6 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From “scheme”.

[edit] Noun

schemie (plural schemies)

1. (derogatory) Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme".

[edit] Adjective

schemie (comparative schemier, superlative schemiest)

• (Confirmation of this inflected form is sought) schemier

1. (derogatory) Of or pertaining to a scheme or schemie.

[edit] Usage notes

Used as derogatory term by the working class who live in the town centre to differentiate themselves from the working class of the outskirts.

[edit] Quotations

noun

• 1996, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting [1]

  They’d rather gie a merchant school old boy with severe brain damage a job in nuclear engineering than gie a schemie wi a Ph. D. a post as a cleaner in an abattoir.

adjective

• 1996, Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy [2]

  Stupidity and sleaze, that’s what it is. Schemie windows. Ah look at the world through schemie windows.

• 2005, Jenny Colgan, The Boy I Loved Before [3]

  This wasn’t skeggy little schemie bully. This was big-time cheerleader style.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ceehims
• chemise