bab vs babe

bab

noun
  • Baby 

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

verb
  • To fish for eels using a bab. 

babe

noun
  • A baby or infant; a very young human or animal. 

  • Darling (term of endearment). 

  • An attractive person, especially a young woman. 

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