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sham⋅my

  [sham-ee] noun, plural -mies, verb, -mied, -my⋅ing.
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chamois (defs. 2–4, 6, 7).
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cham⋅ois

  [sham-ee; Fr. sha-mwah] noun, plural cham⋅ois, cham⋅oix  [sham-eez; Fr. sha-mwah] , verb, cham⋅oised  [sham-eed] , cham⋅ois⋅ing  [sham-ee-ing] .
–noun
1. an agile, goatlike antelope, Rupicapra rupicapra, of high mountains of Europe: now rare in some areas.
2. a soft, pliable leather from any of various skins dressed with oil, esp. fish oil, originally prepared from the skin of the chamois.
3. a piece of this leather.
4. a cotton cloth finished to simulate this leather.
5. a medium to grayish yellow color.
–verb (used with object)
6. to dress (a pelt) with oil in order to produce a chamois.
7. to rub or buff with a chamois.
Also, chammy, shammy, shamoy (for defs. 2–4, 6, 7).

Origin:
1525–35; < MF < LL camox, presumably of pre-L orig.; cf. gems
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cham·ois   (shām'ē)   
n.   pl. cham·ois (shām'ēz)

  1. An extremely agile goat antelope (Rupicapra rupicapra) of mountainous regions of Europe, having upright horns with backward-hooked tips.

  2. also cham·my or sham·my (shām'ē) pl. cham·mies or sham·mies

    1. A soft leather made from the hide of this animal or other animals such as deer or sheep.

    2. A piece of such leather, or a cotton fabric made to resemble it, used as a polishing cloth or in shirts.

  3. A moderate to grayish yellow.


[French, from Old French, from Late Latin camōx.]
sham·my   (shām'ē)   
n.  Variant of chamois.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
cham [ʃæm(i)]

and chammy; sham; shammy
  1. n.
    champagne. : Would you like a little more shammy? , I want the biggest bottle of cham you got!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

chamois 
1560, "soft leather," originally "skin of the chamois," from M.Fr. chamois "Alpine antelope," from L.L. camox (gen. camocis), probably from a pre-L. Alpine language.

shammy 
1651, phonetic spelling of chamois.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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