dodge vs pry

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

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

  • A line of work. 

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. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

pry

noun
  • An act of prying; a close and curious look. 

  • A tool for levering; a crowbar, a lever. 

  • A person who is very inquisitive or nosy; a busybody, a nosey parker. 

verb
  • To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop. 

  • To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize. 

  • Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort. 

  • To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public. 

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