flick vs pluck

flick

verb
  • To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion. 

  • To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly. 

noun
  • A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema. 

  • A flitch. 

  • A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. 

  • A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second 

  • The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device. 

  • A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target. 

  • A powerful underarm volley shot. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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