cock tease vs intrigue

cock tease

noun
  • A person, usually a woman, who teases a man but then withdraws an alluded-to promise of sexual intercourse. 

  • Similarly frustrating teasing, not necessarily either sexual or done by a person. 

intrigue

noun
  • Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair. 

  • A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. 

  • The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters. 

verb
  • To have clandestine or illicit intercourse. 

  • To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme. 

  • To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate. 

  • To arouse the interest of; to fascinate. 

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