cup-and-ball vs gob

cup-and-ball

noun
  • A traditional children's toy consisting of a hand-held wooden cup with a ball attached by a string. The player jerks the ball into the air and attempts to catch it in the cup. 

gob

noun
  • A lump of soft or sticky material. 

  • The mouth. 

  • A sailor. 

  • A whoopee pie. 

  • Waste material in old mine workings, goaf. 

  • Saliva or phlegm. 

verb
  • To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. 

  • To spit, especially to spit phlegm. 

  • To gather into a lump. 

How often have the words cup-and-ball and gob occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )