blarney vs flannel

blarney

verb
  • To beguile with flattery. 

noun
  • Ability to talk constantly and fluently. 

  • Mindless chatter. 

  • Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk. 

flannel

verb
  • To flatter; to suck up to. 

  • To wrap in flannel. 

  • To waffle or prevaricate. 

  • To rub with a flannel. 

noun
  • A washcloth. 

  • Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap. 

  • A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers. 

  • A flannel shirt. 

adj
  • Made of flannel. 

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