carny vs slippery

carny

verb
  • To cajole, wheedle, or coax. 

noun
  • A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud). 

  • A person who works in a carnival (often one who uses exaggerated showmanship or fraud). (Australia) 

  • A carnival. 

  • Flattery. 

  • The jargon used by carnival workers. 

slippery

adj
  • Unstable; changeable; inconstant. 

  • Evasive; difficult to pin down. 

  • Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc. 

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