dag vs fetch

dag

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

fetch

verb
  • To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh) 

  • To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. 

  • To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. 

  • To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. 

  • To reduce; to throw. 

  • To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. 

  • To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. 

  • To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. 

intj
  • Minced oath for fuck. 

noun
  • An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance. 

  • A stratagem or trick; an artifice. 

  • The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts. 

  • An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves. 

  • An act of fetching data. 

  • The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). 

  • The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction). 

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