cut up vs goring

cut up

adj
  • Having been cut into smaller pieces. 

  • Emotionally upset; mentally distressed. 

  • Muscular and lean. 

  • Wounded with multiple lacerations. 

verb
  • To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting. 

  • To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving. 

  • To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc. 

  • Comprise a particular selection of runners. 

  • To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections. 

  • To distress mentally or emotionally. 

  • To disintegrate; to break into pieces. 

goring

adj
  • Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail. 

noun
  • The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting 

  • A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width. 

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