garbage vs gruel

garbage

noun
  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

gruel

noun
  • something that lacks substance 

  • A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill. 

  • punishment 

  • semen 

verb
  • ejaculate 

  • To exhaust, use up, disable 

  • to punish 

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