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schoolie

noun

schoolie is a noun meaning “A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-O-L-I-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of schoolie is schoolies.

What does schoolie mean?

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaA senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.

  2. 2

    AustraliaA schoolteacher.

  3. 3

    UKAn education officer.

  4. 4

    USA juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.

  5. 5

    informalSynonym of school horse.

  6. 6

    slangA public school meal, the school cafeteria food.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce schoolie?

  • Australia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-schoolie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of schoolie

  • schoolies plural
  • schooly
  • skoolie

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is schoolie?

Schoolie appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Schoolie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense school-leaver:

LanguageWords
Frenchélève sortant, élève sortante
GermanAbsolvent, Absolventin, Abiturient, Abiturientin, Schulabgänger, Schulabgängerin

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does schoolie come from?

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).