dag vs scab

dag

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. 

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

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 

scab

noun
  • The mange, especially when it appears on sheep. 

  • The scabies. 

  • A worker who acts against trade union policies; any picket crosser (strikebreaker), and especially one with devotion to union busting. 

  • Any of several different diseases of potatoes producing pits and other damage on their surface, caused by streptomyces bacteria (but formerly believed to be caused by a fungus). 

  • A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold. 

  • A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. 

  • Any one of various more or less destructive fungal diseases that attack cultivated plants, forming dark-colored crustlike spots. 

  • An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed during healing. 

  • Common scab, a relatively harmless variety of scab (potato disease) caused by Streptomyces scabies. 

verb
  • To remove part of a surface (from). 

  • To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. 

  • To act as a strikebreaker. 

  • To beg (for), to cadge or bum. 

  • To become covered by a scab or scabs. 

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