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Definition of 'schemie'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (derogatory) Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme".

    • 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.

    Quotations

    * 1996, , Trainspotting [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=MvG6muVKtTcC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&sig=9Lk_bEr9hiPZlOfulzEtHEi6tCQ] *: 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, , Ecstasy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=CmpypjdQsHYC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&sig=mN8q7rZDRlShy3Ao9hRg-Q1j-Ns] *: 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 [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=r7CPgLjLGokC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&sig=XLCXpHbQhIYyJ2Ljgkmza8Xsq4M] *: This wasn’t skeggy little schemie bully. This was big-time cheerleader style.

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