flannel vs loofah

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. 

verb
  • To flatter; to suck up to. 

  • To wrap in flannel. 

  • To waffle or prevaricate. 

  • To rub with a flannel. 

loofah

noun
  • The dried fibrous interior used as a sponge for bathing 

  • Any bathing sponge 

  • A tropical vine, of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd 

verb
  • To clean or scrub with a loofah. 

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