fight vs spat

fight

noun
  • A conflict, possibly nonphysical, with opposing ideas or forces; strife. 

  • An occasion of fighting. 

  • A physical confrontation or combat between two or more people or groups. 

  • The will or ability to fight. 

  • A boxing or martial arts match. 

verb
  • To conduct or engage in (battle, warfare etc.). 

  • To engage in combat with; to oppose physically, to contest with. 

  • Of colours or other design elements: to clash; to fail to harmonize. 

  • To try to overpower; to fiercely counteract. 

  • To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. 

  • To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. 

  • To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. 

spat

noun
  • A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. 

  • A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. 

  • A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface. 

  • A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear. 

  • A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. 

  • An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. 

  • A light blow with something flat. 

  • The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. 

verb
  • To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands. 

  • To spawn. Used of shellfish as above. 

  • To quarrel or argue briefly. 

  • To strike with a spattering sound. 

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