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schemie

noun
/ˈskiː.mi/

Etymology

From scheme + -ie.

  1. derived from σχῆμα — “form, shape”
  2. derived from schēma — “figure, form”
  3. inherited from scheame
  4. suffixed as schemie — “scheme + ie”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of schemey.

    • 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for schemie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA