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schemey

UK/ˈskiːmi/

schemey noun: someone who lives on an urban housing scheme, especially seen as being poor or ill-educated.

Noun

schemey (plural schemies)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) Someone who lives on an urban housing scheme, especially seen as being poor or ill-educated.

Adjective

schemey (comparative schemier, superlative schemiest)

  1. Scheming; cunning; devious.
    • He struck me as schemey and oleaginous from the first time I saw him, long before his disgraceful performances around the Iraq war.2009, Michael Tomasky, The Guardian, 29 Sep 09

schemey meaning in Bengali

schemey in Bengali

ষড়যন্ত্রমূলক, চতুর, কুটিল

Forms of schemey

Noun
pluralschemies
alternative formschemie
Adjective
comparativeschemier
superlativeschemiest

Origin of schemey

From scheme + -y.

Questions about schemey

What does schemey mean?
Schemey means someone who lives on an urban housing scheme, especially seen as being poor or ill-educated.
What is schemey in Bengali?
Schemey in Bengali is ষড়যন্ত্রমূলক, চতুর, কুটিল. See Schemey meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is schemey?
Schemey can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce schemey?
Schemey is pronounced /ˈskiːmi/ (UK).
What is the plural of schemey?
The plural of schemey is schemies.

Words near schemey in the dictionary

  1. schemes
  2. schemes of studies
  3. schemes of things
  4. schemester
  5. schemesters
  6. schemey
  7. schemie
  8. schemier
  9. schemies
  10. schemiest
  11. scheminess

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schemey (page history and authors); schemey (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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