fife vs tweedle

fife

noun
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 

num
  • Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire. 

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

tweedle

noun
  • A sound of the kind made by a fiddle. 

  • A confidence trick in which fake jewellery is sold as genuine. 

verb
  • To say in a high-pitched voice. 

  • To trifle or play. 

  • To go; to proceed without much enthusiasm. 

  • To move or speak in unison (like Tweedledum and Tweedledee) 

  • To twiddle. 

  • To sell fake jewellery as genuine. 

  • To make a shrill or trilling sound 

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