dun vs rag

dun

verb
  • To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. 

  • To ask or beset a debtor for payment. 

noun
  • A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding. 

  • A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago. 

  • A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. 

  • An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. 

  • A mound or small hill. 

  • A brownish grey colour. 

  • An urgent request or demand of payment. 

  • A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch. 

intj
  • Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music. 

adj
  • Of a brownish grey colour. 

rag

verb
  • To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter. 

  • To dance to ragtime music. 

  • To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. 

  • To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner. 

  • To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. 

  • To become tattered. 

  • To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze. 

  • To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone. 

  • To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. 

noun
  • A poor, low-ranking kicker. 

  • A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising. 

  • A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. 

  • A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. 

  • A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. 

  • A curtain of various kinds. 

  • A sail, or any piece of canvas. 

  • Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge. 

  • A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter. 

  • A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality. 

  • Tattered clothes. 

  • A ragged edge in metalworking. 

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