biting vs piercing

biting

adj
  • Tending to bite. 

  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

  • Cutting or incisive. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

piercing

adj
  • Appearing to look deeply into; penetrating. 

  • Of sound, loud and sharp; shrill. 

  • Of temperature, extremely cold so that it penetrates through clothing and shelter. 

noun
  • A hole made in the body so that jewellery can be worn through it. 

  • An item of jewellery designed to be fitted through a piercing (sense 2). 

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