groaning vs gulp

groaning

noun
  • A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. 

adj
  • Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain. 

  • That groans. 

gulp

noun
  • The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear. 

  • An unspecified small number of bytes, often two. 

  • The usual amount swallowed. 

verb
  • To react nervously by swallowing. 

  • To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. 

intj
  • An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion. 

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