colt vs fledgling

colt

noun
  • A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice. 

  • A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment. 

  • A young camel or donkey. 

  • A young male horse. 

  • A young crane (bird). 

  • A professional cricketer during his first season. 

verb
  • To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. 

fledgling

noun
  • An immature, naïve or inexperienced person. 

  • A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings). 

  • An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago. 

adj
  • Emergent or rising. 

  • Untried or inexperienced. 

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