groaning vs pokey

groaning

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

  • That groans. 

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

pokey

adj
  • of small volume, cramped 

  • slow 

  • fast 

noun
  • knife. 

  • prison. 

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