heart vs skirt

heart

noun
  • The centre, essence, or core. 

  • A wight or being. 

  • A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. 

  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. 

  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. 

  • One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character. 

  • The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. 

  • The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. 

  • Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete. 

  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3. 

verb
  • To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. 

  • To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. 

  • To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. 

skirt

noun
  • Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything. 

  • An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. 

  • The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist. 

  • The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals 

  • A petticoat. 

  • Women collectively, in a sexual context. 

  • A woman. 

  • Sexual intercourse with a woman. 

  • A loose edging to any part of a dress. 

verb
  • To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something). 

  • To be on or form the border of. 

  • To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of. 

  • To cover with a skirt; to surround. 

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