down-atheel vs poky

down-atheel

poky

adj
  • Slow. 

  • Stupid; mentally dull. 

  • Small and cramped, and often shabby. 

noun
  • Jail. 

  • A gambling device based on the card game poker. 

How often have the words down-atheel and poky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )