cake walk vs doss

cake walk

noun
  • Something extremely easy. 

  • A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century. 

  • From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake. 

doss

noun
  • An easy piece of work. 

  • The avoidance of work. 

verb
  • To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless. 

  • To avoid work, shirk, etc. 

adj
  • Good, desirable. 

  • Useless or lazy. Generally combined with expletive noun, especially cunt. 

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