Meaning of schemie | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme".

Scotland, derogatory

Examples

“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 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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