colic vs sob

colic

noun
  • Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions. 

  • A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms. 

  • Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems). 

adj
  • Relating to the colon; colonic. 

sob

noun
  • A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath. 

  • sound of sob 

verb
  • To soak. 

  • To say (something) while sobbing. 

  • To weep with convulsive gasps. 

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