pronounced shming ee or SHminG-E like one would pronounce 'sing-E' with a SHM instead of just s

An extraordinarily odd person. A person differing from the 'norm' but it's intention is not politically incorrect, for example, someone of a race outside of your own, a different sex from your own etc, cannot be a 'shmingy'. Where as someone who hikes their pants up to their arm pits, wears no socks and has the brightest of pink shoes on, can be considered a 'shmingy' Everyone knows a shmingy. Not to be used in a derogatory way, ie; a 'shmingy' cannot refer to someone odd for reasons of a disability, mental or otherwise. It's to be used in the context of 'weirdo' or 'strange' person.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods