bait vs it

bait

adj
  • Well-known; famous; renowned. 

  • Obvious; blatant. 

noun
  • Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests. 

  • A light or hasty luncheon. 

  • A packed lunch. 

  • A post intended to get a rise out of others. 

  • Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something 

  • A small meal taken mid-morning while farming. 

  • Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net. 

  • A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment. 

  • A miner's packed meal. 

verb
  • To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass. 

  • (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey. 

  • To attract with bait; to entice. 

  • (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey. 

  • To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. 

  • To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. 

it

adj
  • Most fashionable, popular, or in vogue. 

pron
  • Referring to a desirable quality or ability, or quality of being successful, fashionable or in vogue. 

  • Referring to sexual intercourse or other sexual activity. 

  • Sex appeal, especially that which goes beyond physical appearance. 

  • The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction. 

  • The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction. (with the noun clause introduced by that) 

  • All or the end; something after which there is no more. 

  • The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions. 

  • Used to refer to someone being identified, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation. 

  • The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it). 

  • The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing. 

  • A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a baby or child, especially of unknown gender. 

  • A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an animate referent who is transgender or is neither female nor male. 

noun
  • The game of tag. 

  • The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag. 

  • One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being. 

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