demean vs roundabout

demean

noun
  • demesne. 

  • resources; means. 

verb
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

roundabout

noun
  • A detour. 

  • A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus. 

  • A fairground carousel. 

  • A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century. 

  • A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island. 

verb
  • To play on a roundabout (carousel) 

  • To travel round roundabouts 

  • To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner 

adj
  • Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. 

  • Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary. 

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