butcher vs skinner

butcher

noun
  • A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). 

  • A look. 

  • A brutal or indiscriminate killer. 

verb
  • To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. 

  • To work as a butcher. 

  • To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. 

  • To mess up hopelessly; to botch. 

  • To kill brutally. 

skinner

noun
  • Someone who skins animals. 

  • An instance of skinning the lamb, i.e. a bookmaker winning all of his bets where nobody backed the winner. 

  • One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides. 

  • A hunting knife used for skinning animals. 

  • A sex offender. 

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