dodge vs plod

dodge

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

plod

verb
  • To trudge over or through. 

  • To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). 

  • To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. 

noun
  • A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. 

  • the police, police officers 

  • a police officer, especially a low-ranking one. 

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