flannel vs washing mitt

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. 

verb
  • To flatter; to suck up to. 

  • To wrap in flannel. 

  • To waffle or prevaricate. 

  • To rub with a flannel. 

adj
  • Made of flannel. 

washing mitt

noun
  • A mitt-shaped piece of terrycloth used for personal hygiene. 

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