schemie

English

Etymology

From scheme +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈskiː.mi/
  • Rhymes: -iːmi

Noun

schemie (plural schemies)

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

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.

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