coquet vs joke

coquet

verb
  • To act as a flirt or coquet. 

  • To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on. 

  • To waste time; to dally. 

noun
  • A flirtatious female; a coquette. 

joke

verb
  • To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. 

  • To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. 

noun
  • An amusing story. 

  • The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one 

  • A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham. 

  • Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected. 

  • Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness. 

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