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▪ I. shammy1|ˈʃæmɪ|
Also 7 shammie, 8 shamy, shammey.
[A phonetic spelling of chamois n.]
1. In full shammy-leather: a kind of soft, pliable leather. Cf. chamois n. 2. Also a piece of this, a wash-leather.
1714Fr. Bk. Rates 142 Goat-Skins and Sheep-Skins drest..in Imitation of Shammy. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 364 They are more capable of labour, than if they wore shammy, or dog-skin. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 93 Cover it with a piece of buff or shammy leather. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 443/2 The wash-leathers, sometimes called ‘shammys’ (chamois), now sold extensively in the streets, are for the most part the half of a sheep-skin, or a larger lamb-skin. 1883R. Haldane Workshop Rec. Ser. ii. 367/1 The process of manufacturing ‘chamois’ or ‘shammy’ leather is thus described.
2. attrib. passing into adj.
a. Composed or made of ‘shammy’ or chamois leather.
1651T. Barker Art of Angling (1820) 7 Some make them [sc. May-flies] with a shammie [eds. 1653, 1659 shammy] body. 1673Shadwell Epsom Wells i. 17 A couple of Gentlemen in Buff Belts, Red Coats, and Shammey Breeches. 1706Sir W. Calverley's Note-bk. (Surtees) 112 A pair of good shamy gloves. 1766H. Walpole Let. to H. S. Conway 12 Jan., I have got my cravat and shammy shoes. 1874G. Walch Head over Heels 83 Here it is—in this old Shammy bag.
†b. Of the colour of this leather; yellowish brown or light fawn. Obs.
1661Peacham's Compl. Gent. xiv. 156 Shammy colour, a smoakie, or rain colour, which is a kind of yellow.
3. Australia. ‘A bag of chamois leather in which miners keep their gold dust’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
[1874: cf. 2 a.]
▪ II. shammy2 ? nonce-wd.|ˈʃæmɪ|
[f. sham a. + -y, after dummy.]
A spurious imitation.
1822Sporting Mag. IX. 214 This may be the case with horses' tails—real ones may be deliberately cut off, and some celebrated professor's shammies annexed to the beast's back in their stead. |