dodge vs shirk

dodge

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

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

  • 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. 

shirk

verb
  • To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. 

  • To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. 

  • To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. 

noun
  • One who shirks, who avoids a duty or responsibility. 

  • The unforgivable sin of idolatry. 

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