bird vs flapper

bird

noun
  • The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended. 

  • A chicken or turkey used as food. 

  • A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive. 

  • A kilogram of cocaine. 

  • A penis. 

  • An airplane. 

  • A girlfriend. 

  • A yardbird. 

  • A prison sentence. 

  • A satellite. 

  • A man, fellow. 

  • Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer. 

  • A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs. 

verb
  • To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds. 

  • To transmit via satellite. 

  • To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment. 

  • To bring into prison, to roof. 

  • To seek for game or plunder; to thieve. 

adj
  • Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course. 

flapper

noun
  • The hand. 

  • A young girl usually between the ages of 15 and 18, especially one not "out" socially. 

  • A young game bird just able to fly, particularly a wild duck. 

  • A flipper; a limb of a turtle, which functions as a flipper or paddle when swimming. 

  • A flapper valve. 

  • One who or that which flaps. 

  • Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult. 

  • A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s. 

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