dilly vs surprise

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

surprise

noun
  • Something unexpected. 

  • The feeling that something unexpected has happened. 

verb
  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To take unawares. 

  • To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected. 

  • To undergo or witness something unexpected. 

  • To cause surprise. 

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