groaning vs hiccup

groaning

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

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

  • That groans. 

hiccup

noun
  • A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound. 

  • Any spasm or sudden change. 

  • A minor setback. 

verb
  • To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup. 

  • To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups. 

  • To say with a hiccup. 

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