schemie

scheme +‎ -ie

• IPA^(key): /ˈskiː.mi/

schemie (plural schemies)

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

Used as derogatory term by the working class who live in the town centre to differentiate themselves from the working class of the outskirts.

• 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.

• chemise