dough-faced vs spineless

dough-faced

adj

  • cowardly 

  • obsequious; fawning; pliable 

spineless

adj

  • Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character. 

  • Having no spines, prickles, or thorns. 

  • Having no spinal column. 

How often have the words dough-faced and spineless occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )