beep vs plink

beep

noun
  • A short, electronically produced tone. 

  • A message sent to a pager device. 

  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 

verb
  • To sound (something that makes a beep). 

  • To contact (someone via) a pager device. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To produce a beep. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts 

plink

noun
  • A short, high-pitched metallic or percussive sound. 

verb
  • To take part in the sport of plinking. 

  • To make a plink sound. 

  • (colloquial) To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. 

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