breadcrumb vs spoil

breadcrumb

verb
  • To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction. 

  • To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface). 

  • To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking. 

noun
  • A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid. 

  • One in a series of clues leading to a person or place. 

  • A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread. 

spoil

verb
  • To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time. 

  • To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess. 

  • To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it. 

  • Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay. 

  • To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use. 

  • To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler. 

noun
  • Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else. 

  • Plunder taken from an enemy or victim. 

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