corn vs counterword

corn

noun
  • Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion. 

  • (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole. 

  • A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions. 

  • (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle. 

  • money. 

  • A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands. 

  • Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region. 

  • A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. 

  • bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms 

  • Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. 

  • A small, hard particle. 

verb
  • to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef 

  • to granulate; to form a substance into grains 

  • to render intoxicated 

  • to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed 

  • to shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn). 

counterword

noun
  • A word (for example so) that is frequently used in a reflex-like manner in an answer and that has thereby quickly taken on a new, much less specific or much looser meaning or is even almost meaningless and performs a completely new function. 

  • Such a word (or a word that has gone through a similar change) when not used as a reflex-like answer. 

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