happening vs kicky

happening

adj
  • Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable. 

  • Trendy, up-to-the-minute. 

noun
  • Something that happens. 

  • A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation. 

kicky

adj
  • Lively, exciting, thrilling. 

  • Characterised by kicking motions. 

  • Describing a wicket that sometimes causes the ball to kick (bounce unevenly). 

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