flounder vs kink

flounder

verb
  • To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance. 

  • To flop around as a fish out of water. 

  • To be in serious difficulty. 

  • He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well. 

  • To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered. 

noun
  • A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts. 

  • A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder, Platichthys flesus. 

  • Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae. 

kink

verb
  • To form a kink or twist. 

  • To laugh loudly. 

  • To be formed into a kink or twist. 

  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. 

noun
  • A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. 

  • A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. 

  • A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. 

  • An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. 

  • A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. 

  • Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. 

  • A person with peculiar sexual tastes. 

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