dribble vs drip

dribble

noun
  • A small amount of a liquid. 

  • A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle. 

  • Drool; saliva. 

  • The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it. 

  • A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand. 

verb
  • To let something fall in drips. 

  • To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand. 

  • In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly. 

  • To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool. 

  • To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle. 

drip

noun
  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

verb
  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To rain lightly. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

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