bab vs babber

bab

noun

  • Baby 

  • A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms. 

verb

  • To fish for eels using a bab. 

babber

noun

  • A baby. 

  • A friend. 

  • A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels. 

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