schemie

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/ˈskiː.mi/

A form of schemey — Someone who lives on an urban housing scheme, especially seen as being poor or ill-educated.

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Meanings

nounschemie (plural schemies)

plural schemies

  1. ScotlandalternativederogatoryAlternative form of schemey.

    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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    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.

    1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN

    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.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
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Origin

From scheme + -ie.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with schemie

dreamysteamysashimiseamyreamyagrimibeamygleamyPheme
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Anagrams

chemise
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APA

schemie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schemie

MLA

“schemie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schemie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “schemie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/schemie.

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