broadside vs wham

broadside

noun
  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

wham

noun
  • a forceful blow 

  • the sound of such a blow; a thud 

intj
  • Used to indicate something sudden, unanticipated, and dramatic has occurred. 

  • The sound of a forceful blow. 

verb
  • to strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact 

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