Definitions
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- noun derogatory Someone who lives in a council house estate or "
scheme ". - adjective derogatory Of or pertaining to a scheme or schemie.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Ah've known schemie-junkies in Edinburgh wi a healthier asset-tae-debt ratio then some two-waged, heavily-mortgaged couples doon here," he observes.
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"Ah've known schemie-junkies in Edinburgh wi a healthier asset-tae-debt ratio then some two-waged, heavily-mortgaged couples doon here," he observes.
Debtspotting 2009
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Funnily, this whole housing crisis has brought to mind the rather prescient comments of Mark Renton in Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting: Ah've known schemie-junkes in Edinburgh wi a healthier asset-tae-debt ratio thin some two-waged, heavily-mortgaged couple doon here.
Housing Bubbles Rock! Dan Vevers 2008
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Funnily, this whole housing crisis has brought to mind the rather prescient comments of Mark Renton in Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting: Ah've known schemie-junkes in Edinburgh wi a healthier asset-tae-debt ratio thin some two-waged, heavily-mortgaged couple doon here.
Archive 2008-12-01 IanPJ 2008
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Detailing the lives of a bunch of Glaswegian working class chancers and schemers and schemie dreamers, this video production started out really funny and I was thinking yes man, sooperb, genuine cutting Scottish comedy, this is so rare.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003
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For a wee schemie who grew up in Fintry, he's pretty smart.
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For a wee schemie who grew up in Fintry, he's pretty smart.
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The phrase 'a rival drug dealer ', to anyone who had read a Scottish newspaper in the past ten years, meant Bud Hannigan: another jumped-up schemie, but one with sufficiently more brains and ambition to make him a far bigger player than Morris could ever have hoped to be.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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And then - ', but I had hung up on her as if I had wanted to speak to some schemie slapper with no intelligence or ability at doing anything but opening her legs I'd've paid a visit to my first and thankfully now very ex wife.
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I f ucking hate Braveheart,1000's of thick schemie numptys actually believe it is an acurate portrale of Scottish History.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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