bird dog vs romantic

bird dog

noun
  • A person who tries to steal someone else's romantic partner 

  • A dog, especially a pointer, used in shooting to retrieve the dead birds. 

  • A tout. 

  • A person who seeks out real estate investment opportunities in exchange for a fee. 

  • A radar detector (for detecting police speed traps). 

  • A hyperextension exercise performed lying on the knees, with one arm and the opposite leg lifted. 

verb
  • A multiservice tactical brevity code requesting configuration of sensors. 

  • To seek out. 

  • To watch closely. 

romantic

noun
  • A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love). 

  • A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance). 

adj
  • Pertaining to an idealised form of love (originally, as might be felt by the heroes of a romance); conducive to romance; loving, affectionate. 

  • Experiencing romantic attraction. 

  • Having the qualities of romance (in the sense of something appealing deeply to the imagination); invoking on a powerfully sentimental idea of life; evocative, atmospheric. 

  • Fantastic, unrealistic (of an idea etc.); fanciful, sentimental, impractical (of a person). 

  • Of a work of literature, a writer etc.: being like or having the characteristics of a romance, or poetic tale of a mythic or quasi-historical time; fantastic. 

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