bedfellow vs recipient

bedfellow

noun
  • An associate, often an otherwise improbable one. 

  • One with whom one shares a bed. 

recipient

noun
  • One who receives. 

  • An individual receiving donor organs or tissues. 

  • The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected. 

adj
  • receiving 

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