canny vs penetrative

canny

adj
  • Careful, prudent, cautious. 

  • Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can. 

  • Frugal, thrifty. 

  • Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny. 

  • Gentle, quiet, steady. 

  • Knowing, shrewd, astute. 

adv
  • Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. 

  • Very, considerably; quite, rather. 

penetrative

adj
  • Displaying insight or discrimination; acute; penetrating. 

  • That can or does physically penetrate something; piercing, penetrating. 

  • That can penetrate opposition defences. 

  • Pertaining to sexual activity involving penetration by the penis. 

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