bum-sucking vs wheedling

bum-sucking

noun

  • Obsequious behaviour. 

adj

  • Obsequious. 

wheedling

noun

  • The act of one who wheedles. 

adj

  • Coaxing, aiming to persuade. 

How often have the words bum-sucking and wheedling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )