eye-watering vs surprising

eye-watering

adj
  • Of a shocking or surprising nature. 

  • So expensive that (figuratively) it would make one's eyes water. 

  • Having an odour, vapours or smoke which causes irritation to the eyes. 

  • Having an extremely bad odour. 

surprising

adj
  • Causing surprise. 

noun
  • A situation in which somebody is surprised. 

How often have the words eye-watering and surprising occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )