英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈskiː.mi/
• 韻: -iːmi

名詞

schemie (plural schemies)

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

使用する際の注意点

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

引用

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

  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 [1]

  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 [2]

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

関連する語

• ned

アナグラム

• chemise