biting vs wintry

biting

adj
  • Tending to bite. 

  • Causing a stinging sensation. 

  • Cutting or incisive. 

noun
  • A bite-sized snack. 

  • An instance of something being bitten. 

wintry

adj
  • a wintry remark 

  • Containing sleet or snow. 

  • Aged, white-haired. 

  • Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy. 

  • Chilling, cheerless. 

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