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shammy - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun chamois , 2.noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) The chamois.noun Shamoying .
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun chamois leather noun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
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After wiping his shoes with a cloth he calls a shammy , Grandpa puts them on.
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When, as sometimes happens, a fossicker comes in with a "shammy " full of gold, and lays himself out to make himself and every one else happy, then indeed the hotel-keeper's harvest is a rich one.
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If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.
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If I had the money sure, I would go buy the whole shammy gammy outfit but I don't.
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Wits' people put shammy leather over our eyes, shaped our arms with winch rope, and locked us into crates for Labs in a pick-up bed.
The Tamarack Swamps Michael Seidel 2011
(Of course, by another "SNL" tradition, anybody in any given cast can "do" Lorne Michaels; just extend your lower lip, grasp a glass of white wine, and let your words come out as if being squeezed from a shammy .)
Tom Shales reviews the opening show of SNL's 36th season Tom Shales 2010
You people are so predictable. oh shammy tell me what come next?
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Just entered Zangamarsh at lvl 64 with my shammy and I love it, it is a herbalists paradise! kyle
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Just remember to wash your shammy in hot water when you get home.
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'You will have to take on a mate or two in the polishing line,' said Jack to Killick, who was gazing round with a kind of imbecile rapture at the number of surfaces that he might now attack with powdered chalk and shammy leather: like many seamen he had a passion for making metal shine, and he had already reduced Jack's earliest silver plates to something not far removed from foil.
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jennarenn commented on the word shammy
These things are amazingly soft.
June 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word shammy
Chamois?
June 23, 2008