Schemie
//ˈskiː.mi// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who lives in a council house estate or "scheme". Scotland, derogatory
"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."
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From scheme + -ie.
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