boring vs goring

boring

noun
  • Fragment thrown up when something is bored or drilled. 

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

adj
  • Capable of penetrating; piercing. 

  • Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes. 

  • Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do. 

  • Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient. 

goring

noun
  • A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width. 

  • The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting 

adj
  • Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail. 

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