shammy leather

Questions about shammy leather

What is another word for shammy leather?

It depends which shammy leather you mean. In the sense “a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin”, the synonyms are chamois, chamois leather, chammy, chammy leather, shammy. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of shammy leather?

WordNet records no antonym for shammy leather. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for shammy leather come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of shammy leather

• Full entry for shammy leatherAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shammy leatherWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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