schemie
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]schemie (plural schemies)
- (Scotland, derogatory) Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme".
Usage notes
[edit]Used as derogatory term by the working class who live in the town centre to differentiate themselves from the working class of the outskirts.
Quotations
[edit]- 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 1996, Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy [1]
- 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 [2]
- This wasn’t skeggy little schemie bully. This was big-time cheerleader style.