counterfeit vs pigeon

counterfeit

verb
  • To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of. 

  • Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board. 

noun
  • A non-genuine article; a fake. 

  • One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter. 

adj
  • Inauthentic. 

  • False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine. 

  • Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical. 

pigeon

verb
  • To deceive with a confidence game. 

noun
  • One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species. 

  • The meat from this bird. 

  • A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game. 

  • A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited. 

  • A weak or useless person. 

  • A pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove. 

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