flit vs gad

flit

verb
  • To move quickly from one location to another. 

  • To move about rapidly and nimbly. 

  • To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts). 

  • To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. 

  • To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location. 

  • To unpredictably change state for short periods of time. 

noun
  • A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. 

  • A fluttering or darting movement. 

gad

verb
  • To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. 

intj
  • An exclamation roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake. 

noun
  • A greedy and/or stupid person. 

  • A goad, a sharp-pointed rod for driving cattle, horses, etc, or one with a whip or thong on the end for the same purpose. 

  • One who roams about idly; a gadabout. 

  • A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod or a measuring rod. 

  • A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock. 

  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. 

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