Definition of "shammy" [sham•my]

• Variant of chamois. (noun)

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• "After wiping his shoes with a cloth he calls a shammy, Grandpa puts them on."
• "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."
• "(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.)"