furbish vs polish

furbish

verb
  • To polish or burnish. 

  • To renovate or recondition. 

polish

verb
  • To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding. 

  • To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite. 

  • To apply shoe polish to shoes. 

  • To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface. 

  • To refine; remove imperfections from. 

noun
  • Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation. 

  • Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess. 

  • A substance used to polish. 

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