chamois vs shammy

chamois

verb
  • To clean with a chamois leather cloth. 

noun
  • A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra. 

  • A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle. 

  • An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather. 

  • The traditional colour of chamois leather. 

adj
  • Chamois-colored. 

shammy

verb
  • To clean with a chamois leather cloth. 

noun
  • Champagne. 

  • Chamois leather. 

  • A cloth made of this leather. 

How often have the words chamois and shammy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )