English

Noun

schemie ‎(plural schemies)

1. (Scotland, 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, Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

  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

  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

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

Anagrams

• chemise