bruising vs stringy

bruising

adj
  • Wearisome, arduous. 

  • That bruises. 

noun
  • Bruises on a person's skin. 

  • A violent physical attack on a person. 

stringy

adj
  • Wiry, lean, scrawny. 

  • Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue. 

  • Resembling or involving text strings. 

  • Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate. 

  • Composed of, or resembling, string or strings. 

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