ass kicking vs cudgelling

ass kicking

noun
  • A beating, sometimes prearranged. 

  • A brutal and decisive defeat of an individual or group of people by another who had thoroughly dominated them in doing so, such as in sports. 

cudgelling

noun
  • A beating with a cudgel. 

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