butter vs smother

butter

verb
  • To spread butter on. 

  • To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow 

  • Hyponyms: nosebutter, tailbutter 

  • To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with then end of a butterknife. 

noun
  • Someone who butts, or who butts in. 

  • A smooth plane landing. 

  • Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc. 

  • A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). 

  • Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it). 

adj
  • Very smooth, very soft 

smother

verb
  • To cook in a close dish. 

  • to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder. 

  • To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone. 

  • To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish 

  • To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air. 

  • To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away. 

  • To be suffocated. 

  • to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed. 

  • To get in the way of a kick of the ball. 

  • To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like. 

  • To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning. 

  • To daub or smear. 

noun
  • Cookware used in such cooking. 

  • Smoldering; slow combustion. 

  • The act of smothering a kick (see verb section). 

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